See waw in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"To stir; move; wave."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave."
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] nigh it drawes\n All passengers, that none from it can shift:\n For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes,\n They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.",
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"A wave."
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"(obsolete) A wave."
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"ref": "1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75:",
"text": "She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.",
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"ref": "1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, section 41:",
"text": "T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.",
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}
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"ref": "2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page 147:",
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],
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"Terms with Turkish translations",
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"en:Arabic letter names",
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