staw

American  

[staw] / stɔ /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. stall.

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Example Sentences

Affleck, 48, donned a tie-dye polo shirt while Lopez, 52, wore a red-and-white striped bikini top, sunglasses, wide-legged white pants, a square staw bag, and layered gold necklaces.

From Fox News • Jul. 29, 2021

The cardin’ o’t, the spinnin’ o’t, The warpin’ o’t, the winnin’ o’t; When ilka ell cost me a groat, The tailor staw the lynin o’t.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Then Murray on the auld grey yaud, Wi' winged spurs did ride, That auld grey yaud a' Nidsdale rade, He staw upon Nidside.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Is there that owre his French ragout Or olio that wad staw a sow, Or fricassee wad make her spew Wi' perfect sconner, Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view On sic a dinner?

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Here, Doon pour’d down his far-fetch’d floods; There, well-fed Irwine stately thuds: Auld hermit Ayr staw thro’ his woods, On to the shore; And many a lesser torrent scuds, With seeming roar.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert