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In some senses, waw is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
waw
/wɔː/
noun 5verb 1
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4ADJ.
used
VERB + WAW
style
WAW + NOUN
wall
PREP.
in
Definitions
verb
1
To stir; move; wave.
noun
1
A wave.
[…] 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.
noun
1
A wall.
She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
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[…] 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.
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She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
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T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
Wiktionary04
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.
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