(1) In some games you shoot from behind a taw .(2) In the early 1800s, children at Leavening played football, trap ball, tap and taw , shinnow and cricket.(3) The town dwellers were leather craftsmen: shoemakers (who formed the Saint-Crépin corporation), tawers , tanners and chamoisers who used the town's numerous waterways for their work.(4) This is the work of the tawers , using age-old techniques combined with modern technology.(5) Then an organ-builder Josef Egger moved in the house and was followed by a tawer Martin Osimus in 1698.(6) Marbles or taws were usually played along the gutters, much to the annoyance of parents.(7) The town was French-speaking for generations, with a French-protestant temple, busy glovers, tawers , weavers and other artisans occupying the newly built houses.(8) His business centred on animal skins: he trained as a glover and whittawer (‘white tawer ’, i.e. a tanner, who treats animal skins with alum or lime), which required an apprenticeship of at least seven years.(9) These skins are both tanned and tawed , the principal tanning agent being the mimosa bark.(10) Both players try to shoot their taws into a one-foot hole.
