Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
- 2noun
The fruit of the hawthorn.
- 3noun
The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
- 4noun
An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
- 5intransitive verb
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
- 6intransitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
- 8noun
the nictitating membrane of a horse
- 9noun
a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
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- 10verb
utter `haw'
"he hemmed and hawed"
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