Definition of Tawsing

1. tawse [v] - See also: tawse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawsing

tawniness
tawninesses
tawny
tawny-breasted tinamou
tawny-breasted tinamous
tawny-owl
tawny eagle
tawny owl
tawny owls
tawpie
tawpies
taws
tawse
tawsed
tawses
tawsing (current term)
tawt
tawted
tawtie
tawtier
tawtiest
tawting
tawts
tax
tax-
tax-deductible
tax-deferred
tax-exempt
tax-free
tax-increase

Literary usage of Tawsing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"How I did wish for Pump Court agin, as we were tawsing abowt in the Channel! Gentle reader, av you ever been on the otion ?—" The sea, the sea, ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1898)
"How I did wish for Pump Court agin, as we were tawsing abowt in the Channel! Gentle reader, av you ever been on the otion ?—" The sea, the sea, ..."

3. Forty Years of Active Service: Being Some History of the War Between the by Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1904)
"Hunter's Vandal Hand—We Pass Through Lynchburg—Hunter Declines Battle—"Virginia tawsing' "—The End of Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg—Hunter a Failure as a ..."

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