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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Taws  \Taws\,  n.  [See  {Taw}  to  beat.] 
  A  leather  lash,  or  other  instrument  of  punishment,  used  by  a 
  schoolmaster.  [Written  also  {tawes},  {tawis},  and  {tawse}.] 
  [Scot.] 
 
  Never  use  the  taws  when  a  gloom  can  do  the  turn. 
  --Ramsay. 

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