tew
Americanverb (used with object)
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Dialect. to dress (leather); to beat or otherwise prepare (animal skin) to produce leather.
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Dialect. to tire out.
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Dialect. to worry, bother, or stress.
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Dialect. to shake, toss, or put out of a state of proper order.
verb (used without object)
noun
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He iz seckond only tew the crow in pettit larceny, and will steal what he kant eat, nor hide.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
An answer tew the above konumdrum iz earnestly solicited.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
The monkey iz imitative tew the highest degree, and imitashun iz a direkt transgreshun ov the law ov instinkt, and iz fallow ground within the domain of reazon.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
"Hoity-toity, what the devil's tew pay?" said Rolfe.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"Darn the ruddled vixens who come a-drabbing into my mews, with a hussy tew hail you afoot and a baggage tew boot on the boot—" "Keep quiet!"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
There shoo sat an' tewed harder nor iver.
From Tales of the Ridings by C. Vaughan
"Happen there was a lass tewed up wi' him, too," said he.
From Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling
Happen there was a lass tewed up wi'it.
From Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling
I counted the days while St Mark's Day, and tewed and rived and better rived to keep him out o' his coffin.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
But he's bin sadly tewed wi' mother leavin' him an' all," replied Mary, "and there's them fits that he has to contend wi'.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
She said there was something very human about trees, that she had often watched them tewing with a great wind, tossing and fretting, but very seldom giving way to it.
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
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