Tewed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Tewed is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of tew.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of tew.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, dialect) fatigued; worn from labour or hardship
Example Sentences
These lockes that hang unkempt, these hollowe dazled eyes, These chattering teeth, this trebling tongue, well tewed with carefull cries.
Sair tewed wi’ wark, I laid me down, And sloomed aneth the Roden Tree; I had a dream I’ll ne’er forget Till Mercy’s right hand reaches me.
He would take no medicine, have no doctor, change no habits—"what did they want to mak on him? he wad du weel eneugh! nowt ailed him to speak on— he was nobbut a lile bit tewed wi ' t' summer's wark, an' off his feed, like auld Horney in t'byre younder;"
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include toilworn, tireling, forwearied, outwearied, awearied, fatig'd.
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