tawse
(noun) a leather strap for punishing children
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tawse (plural tawses)
(chiefly, Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.
tawse (third-person singular simple present tawses, present participle tawsing, simple past and past participle tawsed)
(transitive, chiefly, Scotland) To beat with a tawse.
• Sweat, Weast, swate, sweat, waste, wetas
Source: Wiktionary
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
