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tawing, vbl. n.|ˈtɔːɪŋ|
[f. taw v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of preparing white leather: see taw v.1 2.
1408Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 99 Qe nulle homme..ne vse ascun manere tawing de ascuns pealx en lez ditz schopes. 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 121 And to Joh'n Massy tawyer for tawing of a tymbre of hole sables iiij s. 1517–18in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 59 For Tawynge of Buckys skynnys to couer ij Mase Bokys, xij d. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4862/4 Their Places of tanning, tawing, or dressing of such Hides. 1884Knight Dict. Mech., Tawing, tanning a lamb-skin with the wool on it.
attrib.1588L. M. tr. Bk. Dyeing 49 Take your tawing stocke, and taw it [black leather] well therewith. 1882Paton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 389/2 They receive..a second treatment with the tawing mixture.
b. (pl.) concr. (See quot.)
1611Cotgr., Megis, tawings; the offals, or peeces cut from skinnes in tawing.
†2. The action of flogging or punishing. Obs.
1620Shelton Quix. (1746) IV. vii. 54 Fearing least the Whipping-task and Tawing might light upon him. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 240 He would willingly haue the tawing of mee. 1642Rogers Naaman 30 The Lords own tawing of him [Job]..to wring this speech from him. |