Kaw

See also: kaw

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

Kaw (plural Kaws)

1. A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.
   • 2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, →ISBN, page 20:

     In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]

Synonyms

• Kansa

Derived terms

• Kaw City

Anagrams

• Kwa, awk