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1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   Taws \Taws\, n. [See Taw to beat.]
      A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a
      schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.]
      [Scot.]
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            Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
                                                     --Ramsay.
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