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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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 Shaw, Henry W.
This iz owing tew their not being biled often enuff in their younger daze; but the hen ain’t tew blame for this.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
The cockroach is ov tew colours, sorrel and black.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
An answer tew the above konumdrum iz earnestly solicited.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
There aint nothing on arth more miserable tew ponder over and weep about than a half starved angle-worm.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
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 Vaughan, C.
"Happen there was a lass tewed up wi' him, too," said he.
From Indian Tales by Kipling, Rudyard
The bit in her teeth, There’ll be no holding her, though Jim may tug The snaffle, till he’s tewed.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
Ay, I’m fairly tewed and hattered with words: And yet, for all your wind, you shall not go.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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 Moorman, Frederic William
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 Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
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