Hypertext Webster Gateway: "taws"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
--Ramsay.
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