▪ I. tawer1
(ˈtɔːə(r))
Forms: 4–5 tawier(e, 4–7 tawyer, (5 toyar, 6 tawhear, 8 tawar), 5– tawer.
[f. taw v.1: see -er1. With the earlier tawyer, cf. lawyer, sawyer.]
One who taws; one who prepares white leather; = white-tawer.
| [1311 Letter Bk. D. Lond. lf. 127 Walterus le Whitawyer. 1346 Ibid. F. lf. 126 b, Les bones gentz Megucers appellez Whittawyers.] 1382 Wyclif Acts ix. 43 Many dayes he dwellide in Joppe, at Symound, sum coriour [gloss or tawier, v.rr. tawer, tawiere]. 1480 [see tawing 1]. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 505 Payd to the toyar for iiij. boke skynnys. 1559 Machyn Diary (Camden) 208 A tawhear of skynnes. 1570 Levins Manip. 74/44 A Tawer, alutarius. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 169 The skins of this Beast are dressed by Tawyers, with the fat of fishes and Alum. 1658 R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 280 There live the tanners, tawyers, fell-mongers, parchment, and vellum-dressers. 1795 Statist. Acc. Scotl. XIV. 552 There are 17 tanners, 18 curriers, and 13 tawers. 1883 Century Mag. XXVII. 75 In this part of Paris live all tanners and tawers and their kindred. |
▪ II. ˈtawer2
[f. taw v.2]
One who aims a taw.
| 1898 A. B. Gomme Games II. 113 If one player knocks out a marble, he is entitled to ‘taw’ at the rest in the ring until he misses; and if a sure ‘tawer’ not one of the others may have the chance to taw. |