tew

American  

[tyoo] / tju /

verb (used with object)

tewed, tewing

1. Dialect. to dress (leather); to beat or otherwise prepare (animal skin) to produce leather.

2. Dialect. to tire out.

3. Dialect. to worry, bother, or stress.

4. Dialect. to shake, toss, or put out of a state of proper order.

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verb (used without object)

tewed, tewing

1. Dialect. to work hard until tired.

noun

1. Dialect. a state of worry or upset.

Example Sentences

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They settle all ov their disputes bi letting their javelin fly, an' are az certain an' az anxious tew hit az a mule iz.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

Roosters are the pugilists amung the domestik burds; they wear the belt, and having no shoulder tew strike from, they strike from the heel.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

The cockroach is ov tew colours, sorrel and black.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Their moral karakters are not polished, they had rather steal a rotten turnip, out ov a garbage-box, than tew cum honestly bi a pek ov oats.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

After he haz got through pollywogging he makes up hiz mind that this world want made for pollywogs and “nothing venture nothing have,” and then he turns hiz attenshun tew bigger things.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Ay, I’m fairly tewed and hattered with words: And yet, for all your wind, you shall not go.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

The bit in her teeth, There’ll be no holding her, though Jim may tug The snaffle, till he’s tewed.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

I should feel tewed like, if she came into the kitchen, worritin' and asking questions.

From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

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 for all shoo tewed so hard, there was a gey bit o' wool left i' t' bag when ten o'clock com and 'twere time to get to bed.

From Tales of the Ridings by C. Vaughan

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