tew
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English [edit]
Noun [edit]
tew (plural tews)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A rope or chain for towing a boat.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A cord; a string.
Verb [edit]
tew (third-person singular simple present tews, present participle tewing, simple past and past participle tewed)
- To tow along, as a vessel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
- To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
- (by extension) To beat; to scourge.
- To pull about; to maul.
- (UK, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Scots [edit]
Preposition [edit]
tew
Welsh [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Celtic *tegus (compare Old Irish tiug), from Proto-Indo-European *tegus (compare Old English þicce).
Adjective [edit]
tew m & f (plural tew, equative tewed, comparative tewach, superlative tewaf)
