tew

See also: Tew

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw.

Noun

tew (plural tews)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A rope or chain for towing a boat.
  2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A cord; a string.
  3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Trouble; worry.

Verb

tew (third-person singular simple present tews, present participle tewing, simple past and past participle tewed)

  1. To tow along, as a vessel.
    • Michael Drayton
      By which the Banes had then their full-fraught Navies tew'd
  2. To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
  3. (by extension) To beat; to scourge.
  4. To pull about; to maul.
  5. (Britain, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex.
  6. To work hard; to strive.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cornish

Numeral

tew

  1. Hard mutation of dew.
  2. Mixed mutation of dew.

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit तैल (taila).

Noun

tew

  1. oil

Scots

Preposition

tew

  1. to

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *teɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tew (feminine singular tew, plural tew, equative tewed, comparative tewach, superlative tewaf)

  1. thick, fat

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
tew dew nhew thew
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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