taws
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To prevent the loss of taws one of us was sent ahead to watch for their coming and listen for the faint thud of their fall, while the other three drove from the tee.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
He re-seated her, and taking the taws from her trembling hand, carried it himself to the tyrant.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
He may also strive to place his adversaries' taws within the inner ring, and to be careful in striking planets that they fall into the orbits where the forfeitures are small.
From The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin
Their heads were not the heads of geese but of women artificially painted and with so-called taws, or marbles, for their eyes.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
Marbles are divided into "taws," or well-made strong marbles with which you shoot, and "clays," or the ordinary cheap colored marbles at which you aim and with which you pay your losses.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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