Waw
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /wɔː/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Waw is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.
More Meanings
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
- The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
- Alternative spelling of vav.
- (obsolete) A wave.
Example Sentences
T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.
[…] nigh it drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift: For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.
Word Forms
- waws
- wawing
- wawed
- wawe
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prefixed, li, bewave, wave, bewag, waggle.
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