"daw" meaning in English

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          "ref": "a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew:",
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          "text": "[…] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve\nFor daws to peck at: I am not what I am.",
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          "text": "Therefore to make complaynt\nOf such mysadvysed\nParsons and dysgysed,\nThys boke we have devysed, […]\nNo good preest to offend,\nBut suche dawes to amend, […]",
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          "text": "A kind of choughs, Or thievish daws, sir, that have pick'd my purse Of eight score and ten pounds within these five weeks",
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          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003:",
          "text": "‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.",
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          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 10, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:",
          "text": "ANd whanne the Quene herd them saye soo / she felle to the erthe in a dede swoune / and thenne syr Bors took her vp / and dawed her / & whanne she was awaked she kneled afore the thre knyghtes / and helde vp bothe their handes and besoughte them to seke hym\nAnd when the queen heard them say so she fell to the earth in a dead swoon. And then Sir Bors took her up, and dawed her; and when she was awaked she kneeled afore the three knights, and held up both their hands, and besought them to seek him",
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        "(obsolete) To wake (someone) up."
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          "text": "Therefore to make complaynt\nOf such mysadvysed\nParsons and dysgysed,\nThys boke we have devysed, […]\nNo good preest to offend,\nBut suche dawes to amend, […]",
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          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 10, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:",
          "text": "ANd whanne the Quene herd them saye soo / she felle to the erthe in a dede swoune / and thenne syr Bors took her vp / and dawed her / & whanne she was awaked she kneled afore the thre knyghtes / and helde vp bothe their handes and besoughte them to seke hym\nAnd when the queen heard them say so she fell to the earth in a dead swoon. And then Sir Bors took her up, and dawed her; and when she was awaked she kneeled afore the three knights, and held up both their hands, and besought them to seek him",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wake (someone) up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wake",
          "wake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To wake (someone) up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To daunt; to terrify."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To daunt; to terrify."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɑː/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-daw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-us-daw.ogg/En-us-daw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-us-daw.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "DAW"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "d'aw"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "door (non-rhotic)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "daw"
}