tew

Prep work; labour.

Trouble; worry.

Constant work; bustling; worry, excitement.

To tow along, as a vessel.

By which the Danes had then their full-fraught Navies tew’d:

To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.

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:

To beat; to scourge.

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.

To muddle; to mix up.

Within here, h'as made the gayest sport with Tom the Coachman, so tewed him up with Sack that he lies lashing a But of Malmsie for his Mares.

“Happen there was a lass tewed up wi 'it. Men do more than more for th' sake of a lass.

To work at or worry.

The book was in town, I sent a Friend for it, who brought it to the governor: the priest tewed and turned it, but could not find any thing to prove his charge.

His first words were, “Since I saw you I 'tewed' hard for it betwint me and God, and He has pardoned my sins.

Fishing tackle; a rope or chain for towing a boat; a net.

A cord; a string.