Mew vs Tew - What's the difference?
mew | tew |
(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
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A rope or chain for towing a boat.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A cord; a string.
To tow along, as a vessel.
To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
(by extension) To beat; to scourge.
To pull about; to maul.
(UK, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex.
To work hard; to strive.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between mew and tew
is that mew is (obsolete) a gull, seagull or mew can be (obsolete) a prison, or other place of confinement or mew can be the crying sound of a cat; a meow while tew is (obsolete|uk|dialect) a rope or chain for towing a boat.As verbs the difference between mew and tew
is that mew is (obsolete) to shut away, confine, lock up or mew can be (of a cat) to meow while tew is to tow along, as a vessel.As an interjection mew
is a cat's cry.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.
Etymology 3
OnomatopoeicAnagrams
* ----tew
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Drayton)