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staw
[ staw ]
/ stÉ” /
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noun, verb (used with or without object) Chiefly Scot.
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Words nearby staw
stave off, staves, stavesacre, Stavropol, stavudine, staw, stay, stay-at-home, staybolt, staycation, stayer
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How to use staw in a sentence
As the Peebles folk said, in their old-fashioned vernacular, he had got 'a staw'—meaning an effectual surfeit.
He had gotten a staw of the red soldiers, he said, and wished for that time to see no more of them.
The Men of the Moss-Hags|S. R. Crockett