'tawis' definitions:
- 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.]
[1913 Webster]
- Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
--Ramsay.
[1913 Webster]
