Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
tew , 1; especially, to beat (hemp) in order to separate the fibers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
tool forbeating flax .
Etymologies
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See tew (verb).
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