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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
taw .
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Examples
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I have tawed a few hides myself, sheep, goat, rabbit and coon and it is a lot of work but the end result is far superior to the ersatz.
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I have tawed a few hides myself, sheep, goat, rabbit and coon and it is a lot of work but the end result is far superior to the ersatz.
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While I was repairing the paper, re-lining the spine, and backing it with an extended alum tawed lining which I used to attach new split boards, and covering the book with alum-tawed goat, a classmate showed me an article about the Merriam-Webster Co.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » How Books Were Made 2010
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While I was repairing the paper, re-lining the spine, and backing it with an extended alum tawed lining which I used to attach new split boards, and covering the book with alum-tawed goat, a classmate showed me a Sunday Globe Magazine article about the Merriam-Webster Co. in Springfield, MA.
The Astounding Handmade Recreation of the Pictorial Webster’s Dictionary « Typefiend™ 2010
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People wonder why Tom Cruise could be so taken over by Scientology or why Michael Jackson is the tawed skin-bag of psychosis he is but the answer is simple: celebrities and to a certain extent celebrity politicians get to a point that they never have contact with "normal" people anymore.
"American Prayer" of the damned. Ann Althouse 2008
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If you send 100 of them tawed with the haire on, they will bee solde, or else not.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Some of the white tawed skins of the 15th and 16th century, other than white pigskin, and probably deerskin, have lasted very well.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894
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I grew sick of being tawed for offences I had never committed, and so made bold one morning to try and strangle the Mother of the Workroom, who sat over us with a rattan, while we carded wool.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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If you send 100 of them tawed with the haire on, they will bee solde, or else not.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Callings of Iron, and flit and rolled Iron, Leather tanned or tawed, and all manufac tures of which Leather is the article of chef value,
A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay 1779
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