taw

¹

[ taw ]

noun

1. a choice or fancy marble used as a shooter.
2. a game in which marbles are arranged in the center of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground, the object being to knock out as many as possible from the circle; ringer.
3. Also taw line. the line from which the players shoot.

verb (used without object)

1. to shoot a marble.

taw

²

[ taw ]

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare or dress (some raw material) for use or further manipulation.
2. to transform (the skin of an animal) into white leather by the application of minerals, emulsions, etc.
3. Archaic. to flog; thrash.

taw

³

[ tahv, tawv, tahf, tawf ]

noun

1. tav.

taw

¹

/ tɔː /

verb

1. to convert (skins) into white leather by treatment with mineral salts, such as alum and salt, rather than by normal tanning processes
2. archaic.
   to flog; beat

taw

²

/ tɔː /

noun

1. the line from which the players shoot in marbles
2. back to taws informal.
   back to the beginning
3. a large marble used for shooting
4. a game of marbles

Derived Forms

• ˈtawer, noun

Other Words From

• tawer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of taw¹

First recorded in 1700–10; origin uncertain

Origin of taw²

First recorded before 900; Middle English tauen, tawen, Old English tawian “to prepare or treat hide,” cognate with Dutch touwen “to tan, prepare leather,” Gothic taujan “to do, make”

Word History and Origins

Origin of taw¹

Old English tawian; compare Old High German zouwen to prepare, Gothic taujan to make

Origin of taw²

C18: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Foreign Minister Wang Yi was the latest diplomat to visit Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw and is thought to have delivered a warning to the country's ruler Min Aung Hlaing.

From BBC

The bloodshed on Saturday morning in Let Htoke Taw village in Sagaing region’s Myinmu township, reported by independent media, was the latest of three mass killings in the past few days in Myanmar’s brutal civil war.

From Seattle Times

Thirty-three people, including three 17-year-old boys, two older people and three carpenters from a nearby village, were killed Saturday in an army raid on Let Htoke Taw, said a local administrator loyal to the opposition National Unity Government who managed to escape from the village.

From Seattle Times

A Let Htoke Taw villager told the AP on Monday that panicked residents sought to flee when the soldiers, firing their weapons, attacked shortly after 5 a.m., and those who couldn’t escape the village sought safety in the main building of the local Buddhist monastery.

From Seattle Times

After rejoining forces with the junta, the militia on Tuesday helped to free trapped regime soldiers and retake their battalion’s base on the edge of town, where they raised Myanmar’s national flag, said Padoh Saw Taw Nee, the spokesman for the Karen National Union, a political leadership body.

From New York Times