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
Example Sentences
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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.
"I darkened mine, but the watchman came battering and bawling tew the door and made me light up again."
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
An answer tew the above konumdrum iz earnestly solicited.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
I kant tell exactly how tew pick out a good hen, but as a general thing, the long-eared ones, are kounted the best.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
If thare want enny bats in this world, i dont suppose the earth would refuse tew revolve on its axis, once in a while, just for fun.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
There shoo sat an' tewed harder nor iver.
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
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
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
I should feel tewed like, if she came into the kitchen, worritin' and asking questions.
From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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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