Meaning

(obsolete) Prep work; labour..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Prep work; labour.
2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Trouble; worry.
3. (dialectal, US) Constant work; bustling; worry, excitement.
4. To tow along, as a vessel.
5. To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
6. (by extension) To beat; to scourge.
7. To muddle; to mix up.
8. To work at or worry.

Example Sentences

By which the Danes had then their full-fraught Navies tew’d:

It' I bequeath to Richard Smythe, of Steton, my best losyn sherte, a tewed bull skyn, a bushell of wheate, and a bushel of barlie.

yet wee found no townes, nor many of their houses, although we saw manie Indians, which are tall big boned men, all naked, saving they cover their privy parts with a blacke tewed skin, much like a Black-smithes apron, tied about their middle and betweene their legs behinde:

These afford very good dubbing, and a variety, especially those hides that have been tewed, or dressed in a skinner's lime-pit;

with the king ran also Dyvers others, who all returning brought Cudgells and wandes in their hands all to be tewed, as if they had beaten him extreamly.

On the shores which lie open to the East, the grass grows down to the water side, and they are the greener shores; but on the shores exposed to the West, the grass and trees are weather beaten and worn away, and the shore sides much tewed with the surge.

When the sand, mixed with wort upon the stone casting table, has been thoroughly pounded or tewed, by means of a short, thick, wooden roller, the workman places one of the boxes upon the moulding board, and also arranges thereon the models of the articles to be cast, or parts of the same, which must all be of such a shape as that they will admit of being withdrawn, without difficulty, from the sand.

The edges of the table or board are surrounded by a ledge , in order to support the tewed stuff ; the table so previously prepared is filled up with the sand as high as the top of the ledge, which is in a moderately moistened state, and which must be pressed closely down upon the table in every part.

Word Forms

• tews
• tue
• tewing
• tewed

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