Thesaurus: haw

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1. n. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
2. n. The fruit of the hawthorn.
3. n. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
4. n. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
5. v. i. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
6. v. i. To word/turn">turn to the word/near">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. v. t. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
8. n. a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
9. n. the nictitating membrane of a horse
10. v. utter ‘haw’
11. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitatingmembrane, under Nictitate.