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Tawer

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taw 1  (tô)
tr.v. tawed, taw·ing, taws
To convert (skin) into white leather by mineral tanning, as with alum and salt.
[Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian, to prepare.]
tawer n.
taw 2  (tô)
n.
1. Chiefly Southern U.S. A large, fancy marble used for shooting.
2. The line from which a player shoots in marbles.
3. A game of marbles.
intr.v. tawed, taw·ing, taws
To shoot a marble.
[Origin unknown.]


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I have a fief in the Rue Tirechappe, and all the women are in love with me, as true as Saint Eloy was an excellent goldsmith, and that the five trades of the good city of Paris are the tanners, the tawers, the makers of cross-belts, the purse-makers, and the sweaters, and that Saint Laurent was burnt with eggshells.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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