Meawed vs Mewed - What's the difference?
meawed | mewed |
(meaw)
* Belgravia magazine (volume 45)
(mew)
(obsolete) A gull, seagull.
* , II.xii:
(obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
(obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.243:
(falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
(obsolete) To shut away, confine, lock up.
* c. 1669 , John Donne, "Loves Warre":
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(of a bird) To moult.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between meawed and mewed
is that meawed is past tense of meaw while mewed is past tense of mew.meawed
English
Verb
(head)meaw
English
Noun
(en noun)- Was it a meaw I heard, and a scratching, or was it only the wind
mewed
English
Verb
(head)mew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mewe, from (etyl) 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic (myjati) 'to mew'.Noun
(en noun)- A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes , with Seagulles hoarse and bace [...].
Etymology 2
From (etyl) mue, (muwe), and (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew , / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
- A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
Verb
(en verb)- To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall [...].
- More pity that the eagle should be mewed .
- Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.
- The hawk mewed his feathers.
- Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.