Lawe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Lawe is a verb meaning (transitive) To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet, to hinder it from hunting).
Meaning
(transitive) To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet, to hinder it from hunting).
More Meanings
- Obsolete spelling of law (“system of regulations etc.”).
Example Sentences
They were enveloped in forms, and easily evaded ; like a lawed dog, too mutilated to catch their game.
The Vicar of Bacford for the same John Miller there for the same Beatrice de Coghull for one dog not lawed.
Godric rarely entered the forest, and, having already trained Harold to help with driving the sheep, at which the young dog had shown a remarkable talent, he had no wish to have him lawed.
Word Forms
- lawes
- lawing
- lawed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include olde, hamble, expeditate, expediate, declaw, beclaw.
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