How To Use Tawse In A Sentence
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He ran a long way, until finding that he had not been detected, he skirted a small wood, dug a hole in the soft moss, put in the "tawse," and covered them up.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
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Also known as a “split paddle,” a tawse is a wide leather strap split into strips at the end light to intense.
Come Hither
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The use of the tawse, a then popular and widely accepted form of punishment in Scottish schools, did not infringe the European Convention.
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The conclusion was that the Court, without actually deciding whether the use of the tawse would contravene Art. 3, held that the threat of its use did not do so.
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The strips had been hardened in the fire, and the 'tawse' was a holy horror to the boys, who saw it often and were threatened with it sometimes, but who had felt it never.
Despair's Last Journey
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It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar 'that mornin'.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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The Hootsmon has not shrunk from criticising the Scottish education system and - from time to time - has taken a tawse to its naked hurdies.
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The school deserves praise for its initiative, and it's a far better means of improving behaviour than thrashing unruly children with the tawse.
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The thong is the familiar "tawse" of schools north of the Border.
Roman life in the days of Cicero
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A design variation on the tawse is a “devil’s hand” moderate to intense, which is a leather paddle cut to resemble a three-fingered hand.
Come Hither
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To use a well-known cricketing phrase, Gloag could get ‘more work’ on the tawse than any of the other masters.
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Just as he got astride the sill he spied a piece of chalk and the "tawse" on the table, so turning back he put the "tawse" in his pocket, and with the chalk wrote on the table: --
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
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Just get a horse's hair -- a lang yin oot o 'its tail -- and put it across yer haun', an 'it'll cut his tawse in twa, whenever he gie's ye a pammy.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner