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taws (tôz)

pl.n. Chiefly Scots

1. A whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.

2. A leather whip divided at the end into strips, formerly used to punish children: "Solider Aristotle played the taws/Upon the bottom of a king of kings" William Butler Yeats.

[From taw¹.]

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