taws

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He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book: when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

"You deserve the taws about your back, sirrah, to forget my sacred office so far as to speak so," said the minister.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

In the marble season he was a plutocrat in taws and agates.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

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 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, religion, taws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him the best account I was able.

From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Balliet, Thomas M.