taw

Meanings

Verb

• To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
• To beat; to scourge.
• To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
• To shoot a marble.
• To push; to tug; to tow.

Noun

• Tawed leather.
• A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
• A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
• A dance partner.
• A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
• The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic.

Origin

• From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian, from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-.
• Cognate with Dutch touwen ("to rope, tether, curry"), Dutch tuien ("to fasten with ropes"), German Tau ("rope, hawser, cable"), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 ("to make, prepare"). Related to tool and tether.
• Unknown.
• Compare tew, and tow.