gaw

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The chief's daughter, in particular, was took with the beauties of that gew-gaw, and she made signs to us that she wanted one just like it I never noticed he was so rangy," Mike told me, when he'd sized up the new arrival.

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  1. A mark left on the skin by a stroke or pressure.—2. A crease in cloth.
  2. A layer or stratum of a different kind of soil from the rest.
  3. A drain; a little ditch or trench; a grip. Care should be taken to have plenty of channels or gaws or grips, as they are usually termed in Scotland. Stephens.
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  • When we arrived at Genishau, the Indians of that tribe were making active preparations for joining the French, in order to assist them in retaking Fort Ne-a-gaw (as Fort Niagara was called in the Seneca language) from the British, who had taken it from the French in the month preceding. —  A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
  • I can imagine all that extra mechanical gee-gaw weighting down the headstock ... not six, but eight .... times. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • I can imagine all that extra mechanical gee-gaw weighting down the headstock ... not six, but eight .... times. website, the tuners are slightly lighter than Gotoh tuners! —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • When High Jinks puts up a trumpery, gee-gaw parasol, she's human. —  If Winter Comes
  • And when you get a life that finds pleasure in a trumpery, gee-gaw parasol, well that's more pathetic still. —  If Winter Comes
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  1. Scots, = English gall.
  2. Scots, prob. a particular use of gaw.
  3. A variant of gaul.
 

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