tew
/tjuː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tewen, *tewe, *tēog, *teug, *teugą, tīewe
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.