tawse or taws 
(tôz)
(tôz)pl.n.
Chiefly Scots
Chiefly Scots
1. A whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
2. A leather whip divided at the end into strips, formerly used to punish children: "Solider Aristotle played the taws / Upon the bottom of a king of kings" (William Butler Yeats).
[From TAW1.]
- aport
- aposematic coloration
- aposiopesis
- aposiopetic
- aposporic
- aposporous
- apospory
- apostasy
- apostate
- apostatize
- a posteriori
- apostle
- apostlehood
- "Apostle of the English."
- Apostles' Creed
- apostleship
- apostolate
- apostolic
- apostolical
- apostolically
- apostolic delegate
- Apostolic Father
- apostolicity
- apostrophe
- apostrophe