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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Taws

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01 n. A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.
  1. 1.
    A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.[Scot.]
    “Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.” — Ramsay.