taws

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From that moment he ruled them by his eye, the taws vanished.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

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

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

Also there were three glass alleys, two agate taws and thirty-eight commies.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon