Definitions for haw

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IPA: /hɔ/

Haw is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in haw (ahw).

Definitions for haw

noun

1. a sound or pause of hesitation. Compare hem2 (def 3).
2. the fruit of the Old World hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata, or of other species of the same genus.
3. the hawthorn.
4. the thin, protective membrane at the inner corner of the lower eyelid of a horse, dog, etc.; nictitating membrane.

interjection

1. (used as a word of command to a horse or other draft animal, usually directing it to turn to the left.)

verb (used without object)

1. to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to turn or make a turn to the left:

Origin of haw

First recorded in 1625-35; imitative

Examples for haw

Had we been able to see the future, haw much heavier would they have been!

If you want any more you may sing it yourself; he, haw, hum!

Her back stood up, and her bones they were bare; he, haw, hum!

I entreated him not to be so severe upon me; and again he said, "haw haw!"

They then began to cross the plain with oxen, hollowing "haw."

He rested the better for it during the early part of that night in a haw thicket.

Why do these—these people at the fort hem and haw and hesitate when they speak about him?

If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

I might as well have tried to turn a steamboat by saying “haw!”

They back away and hem and haw and leave it to the lower courts to implement their decisions.