• (British) IPA: /tɔː/

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, Dutch tuien, German Tau, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽. Related to tool and tether.

taw (taws, present participle tawing; simple past and past participle tawed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
2. (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
3. (transitive) 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.
   1. (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

• tool

taw

1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

taw (plural taws)

1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗:

     Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
3. (square dancing) A dance partner.

   Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.

4. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

taw (taws, present participle tawing; simple past and past participle tawed)

1. To shoot a marble.

Compare Phoenician 𐤕, Hebrew ת, Arabic تاء.

• IPA: /ˈtaʊ/

taw (plural taws)

1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic.

• French: tav
• Russian: тав

Compare tew ("to tow"), and tow.

taw (taws, present participle tawing; simple past and past participle tawed)

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

1. A river in Devon, England, which flows into an estuary where it meets the River Torridge.

1. (rail transport) The station code of Tai Wai in Hong Kong.