Also known as a “split paddle,” a tawse is a wide leather strap split into strips at the end light to intense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Hither] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

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 on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

The thong is the familiar "tawse" of schools north of the Border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman life in the days of Cicero] Reference

A design variation on the tawse is a “devil’s hand” moderate to intense, which is a leather paddle cut to resemble a three-fingered hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Hither] Reference

Did the schoolmaster not tawse her for it, though?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

The tawse had hung idle even for Paul for many and many a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

"You are an ould pig and I'll not speak, and you'll never put your hands on your tawse again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

We'd mostly get it across the palm of the hand with a tawse, in the school-house, instead of on the backside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

"An 'what did ye do wi' the tawse, son?" she enquired, her dark eyes showing pride in the revolt of her laddie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

They heard the swish, swish, swish of the tawse, and not another sound but hard breathing for a full minute; then Paul began to groan, and then to shriek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

"And they answered: 'Please, sir, give him the tawse'?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dominie in Doubt] Reference

'And does she go at you with that dreadful thing -- what's it name -- the tawse?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference

He threw the tawse at Annie, half, let us suppose, in thoughtless cruelty, half in evil jest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

Now and then a class came up and did some task, and at times a boy got the tawse for his negligence, but never a girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush] Reference

It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar 'that mornin'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

According to what the Kierleys told me, old Ferguson used to use the tawse on her sometimes, and they led a sort of cat-and-dog life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herapath Property] Reference

John's discoloured eye, and she had beaten him with the leather tawse that was kept hanging from a nail at the side of the fireplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foolish Lovers] Reference

If it is not in him, thwack it in with your tawse. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

Use the tawse well and it will soon do its duty to me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle] Reference

"She'd act like a spoilt wee lassie in need of the tawse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

And he had irked at being kept for so long under the tawse of old Bleach-the-boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference

"Captain Campbell," said he, "it is not the tawse that ever put wisdom into a head like yon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

"Ye'd see it the same, if I were to smash your face, rather than only take a tawse to your bum?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

By criffens! it was sair, an 'gin I had only had a horse's hair, I'd soon ha'e putten his tawse oot the road. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

"By crikey," said wee Alec Johnstone to him, "wait till auld Clapper gie's ye a biff or twa wi 'his muckle tawse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

I, ‘it may be as you say’, but since I am clear of the tawse and the porter’s lodge, sifflicate wha like, deil hae Richie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

"They appointed Mary Wilson as chairman, and then John Smith got up and proposed that the prisoner get six scuds with the tawse from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dominie in Doubt] Reference

"Davie, lad," said grannie solemnly, "if you kenned what you are saying, you would deserve the tawse.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Fleming's Forgiveness] Reference

Until the tawse was bloody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krindlesyke] Reference

She can fairly use the tawse.    From Wordnik.com.  [There is a Happy Land 2] Reference

"What is tawse?" said the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romany Rye] Reference

'What is tawse?' said the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'] Reference

No doubt he eould like to bring back the tawse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holyrood Chronicles] Reference

No tawse to chide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krindlesyke] Reference

"the tawse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Industrial Biography]