tew
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw.
Inflected forms:
form: tews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tewed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To tow along, as a vessel.
pos: verb
examples: By which the Danes had then their full-fraught Navies tew’d:
gloss: To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
pos: verb
examples: It' I bequeath to Richard Smythe, of Steton, my best losyn sherte, a tewed bull skyn, a bushell of wheate, and a bushel of barlie.
yet wee found no townes, nor many of their houses, although we saw manie Indians, which are tall big boned men, all naked, saving they cover their privy parts with a blacke tewed skin, much like a Black-smithes apron, tied about their middle and betweene their legs behinde:
These afford very good dubbing, and a variety, especially those hides that have been tewed, or dressed in a skinner's lime-pit;
gloss: To beat; to scourge.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: with the king ran also Dyvers others, who all returning brought Cudgells and wandes in their hands all to be tewed, as if they had beaten him extreamly.
On the shores which lie open to the East, the grass grows down to the water side, and they are the greener shores; but on the shores exposed to the West, the grass and trees are weather beaten and worn away, and the shore sides much tewed with the surge.
When the sand, mixed with wort upon the stone casting table, has been thoroughly pounded or tewed, by means of a short, thick, wooden roller, the workman places one of the boxes upon the moulding board, and also arranges thereon the models of the articles to be cast, or parts of the same, which must all be of such a shape as that they will admit of being withdrawn, without difficulty, from the sand.
The edges of the table or board are surrounded by a ledge , in order to support the tewed stuff ; the table so previously prepared is filled up with the sand as high as the top of the ledge, which is in a moderately moistened state, and which must be pressed closely down upon the table in every part.
gloss: To muddle; to mix up.
pos: verb
examples: Within here, h'as made the gayest sport with Tom the Coachman, so tewed him up with Sack that he lies lashing a But of Malmsie for his Mares.
“Happen there was a lass tewed up wi 'it. Men do more than more for th' sake of a lass.
And then again in a mighty bustle he bandied it, slubbered it, hacked it, whittled it, wayed it, […] tugged it, tewed it, carried it, bedashed it, […]that it was ten thousand to one he had not structk the bottom of it out.
gloss: To work at or worry.
pos: verb
examples: The book was in town, I sent a Friend for it, who brought it to the governor: the priest tewed and turned it, but could not find any thing to prove his charge.
His first words were, “Since I saw you I 'tewed' hard for it betwint me and God, and He has pardoned my sins.
gloss: To harangue or argue with.
pos: verb
examples: You should have ta'en her then, turn'd her, and tewed her I' th' strength of all her resolution, flatter'd her, and shaked her stubborn will; she would have thank'd you, She would have loved you infinitely;
But it haint his doin's; he has been tewed at, night and day.
gloss: To tease; to vex or worry.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: but having received his orders early that morning from the trainer, accompanied with a warning not to suffer himself to be tewed (Yorkshire patois for worried) by anything Mr. Mellish might say, the sallow-complexioned lad walked about in the calm serenity of innocence
After dinner uncle Joe made off to his piggeries; while aunt Dorothy fell asleep in a capacious old arm-chair by the fire, after making an apologetic remark to the effect that she was tired, and had been a good deal "tewed" that morning in the dairy. "Tewed," I understand, is Yorkshire for "worried."
Mr. Parkinson, I have been as ill done by as that young lady; I have been worried, and tewed, and cheated out of my life and senses .
My missis and me liv'd i' peace fifty-three years, Peg wur allus a Chapel goer, bud I wur a careless chap and that tewed her.
gloss: To work hard; to strive.
pos: verb
examples: He 'le tug and tew, and strive and stoope to ought.
Poor Nannie tewed on, hau'f hungered ti deead, Sha kenn'd nowt o ' t'gowd 'at war squandered awaay, Just 'arnin 'eneeaf fer watter an' breead.
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