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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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
They bild their houses out ov earth and the houses hav but one door tew them, and that iz a front door.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
I never could ackount for a snaik or a kat hateing tew die so bad, unless it waz bekauze they waz so poorly prepared for deth.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Adam would never hav bin fit tew kontend with the job ov gitting a living outside the garden if he hadn’t trapped suckcessfully for a mouse.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Thare iz lots ov people who have never seen a flea, and it takes a pretty smart man tew see one ennyhow; they don’t stay long in a place.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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 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
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
Happen there was a lass tewed up wi'it.
From Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling
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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