haw

haw has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.

Definitions

• n.. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
• n.. The fruit of the hawthorn.
• n.. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
• n.. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
• v. i.. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
• v. i.. 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.
• v. t.. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
• n.. the nictitating membrane of a horse
• n.. a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
• v.. utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"