Definitions for haws

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haws haw

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IPA: /hɔ/

Haws is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in haws (ahsw).

Definitions for haws

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 haws

First recorded in 1625-35; imitative

Examples for haws

Your face is as hard and cold and red as one of the haws Flurry brought me.

I'm delighted, Charles, if my little hips and haws meet with your approval.

When there aren't any gooseberries about he has to be content with the hips and haws from the rose-trees.

The haws are very abundant; which, they say, is another sign of a hard winter.

For their haws they have sometimes been paying him small rents.

When there aren't any gooseberries about, he has to be content with the hips and haws from the rose-trees.

haws' company are now formed with us, making our 50 nearly complete.

Miss Miriam was the second Miss haws, good-tempered and—near-sighted.

In p. 87autumn they feed on haws and yew-berries, and in the spring on ivy-berries.

Further, if Marten hums and haws about the amount, ascertain what sum will satisfy him.