haw

haw is a 3-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
2. noun. The fruit of the hawthorn.
3. noun. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
4. noun. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
5. intransitive verb. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
6. intransitive verb. To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.
7. transitive verb. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
8. noun. the nictitating membrane of a horse
9. noun. a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus

   Synonyms: hawthorn

10. verb. utter `haw'

    "he hemmed and hawed"

Synonyms

hawthorn

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in haw:

hwa, wah, wha

Common word forms

haws, hawed, hawer, hawing

Words from these letters

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