Usage examples (36)

• Also known as a “split paddle,” a tawse is a wide leather strap split into strips at the end light to intense.
• 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.
• 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...
• The thong is the familiar "tawse" of schools north of the Border.