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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tawse /tɔːz/ (also taws)

▶noun Scottish a thong with a slit end, formerly used in schools as a whip.

– origin C16: appar. the pl. of obs. taw ‘tawed leather’, from taw1.

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