TEW

Definitions: TEW

TEW

Intransitive verb

1. To work hard; to strive; to fuse.

Noun

1. A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.

Transitive verb

1. To tow along, as a vessel.

Verb

1. Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex.

2. To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
TEW	English	Tactical electronic warfare	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: TEW

English words defined with "TEW": Tewed, Tewing. (references)

Etymologies containing "TEW": Tewtaw. (references)

Non-English Usage: "TEW" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Welsh (fat, plump, thick).

Domain	Title
Books	Dennis Tew - Children's Dreams (reference) The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon (reference) (more book examples)
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"TEW" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "TEW" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	71.43%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	28.57%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "TEW" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Tew	Last name	2,000	6,511
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "TEW": tee-tew.
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Language		Translations for "TEW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Romanian		bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "TEW": tewed, tewing, tews. (additional references)
	Words ending with "TEW": stew. (additional references)
	Words containing "TEW": bitewing, bitewings, gateway, gateways, graniteware, granitewares, latewood, latewoods, noteworthily, noteworthiness, noteworthinesses, noteworthy, routeway, routeways, statewide, steward, stewarded, stewardess, stewardesses, stewarding, stewards, stewardship, stewardships, stewbum, stewbums, stewed, stewing, stewpan, stewpans, stews, wastewater, wastewaters, wasteway, wasteways, whitewall, whitewalls, whitewash, whitewashed, whitewasher, whitewashers, whitewashes, whitewashing, whitewashings, whitewing, whitewings, whitewood, whitewoods. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "TEW" (pronounced khuw", tuw" , or tē"ē"du"bulyuw')
2	kh uw"	chew, eschew.
2	t uw"	hitherto, into, stew, tattoo, to, too, two.
3	-l y uw'	devalue, revalue.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: wet.
	Words within the letters "e-t-w"
	-1 letter: et, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-t-w"
	+1 letter: newt, stew, tews, thew, twae, twee, weet, weft, welt, went, wept, wert, west, wets, whet, wite, wyte.
	+2 letters: dwelt, etwee, newts, owlet, pewit, rewet, stews, strew, sweat, sweet, swept, tawed, tawer, tawie, tawse, tewed, thews, thewy, threw, towed, towel, tower, towie, trews, twaes, tweak, tweed, tween, tweet, twerp, twice, twier, twine, twyer, waste, water, wecht, weest, weets, wefts, welts, wests, wetly, wheat, whets, white, wited, wites, withe, wrest, write, wrote, wyted, wytes.
	+3 letters: atween, bawtie, bestow, bewept, dawted, dawtie, etwees, fewest, howlet, lowest, newest, newton, owlets, peewit, pewits, pewter, powter, qwerty, rawest, rewets, stewed, stowed, strewn, strews, swathe, sweats, sweaty, sweets, swithe, swivet, tawers, tawney, tawpie, tawsed, tawses, tewing, thawed, thawer, towage, towels, towers, towery, towhee, towies, townee, townie, trowed, trowel, tweaks, tweaky, tweeds, tweedy, tweeny, tweets, tweeze, twelve, twenty, twerps, twiers, twined, twiner, twines, twinge, twofer, twyers, unwept, wadset, wafted, wafter, waited, waiter, wallet, wanted, wanter, warted, wasted, waster, wastes, watape, waters, watery, watter, wattle, wealth, wechts, weeted, weight, welted, welter, weskit, wester, wether, wetted, wetter, wheats, whited, whiten, whiter, whites, whitey, wicket, widest, widget, wiglet, willet, wilted, winter, wintle, wisent, wisest, wisted, withed, wither, withes, witney, witted, wonted, worset, wotted, wreath, wrests, wretch, wriest, writer, writes, writhe, wryest, wuther.
	+4 letters: awaited, awaiter, bawties, beltway, bestows, bestrew, bestrow, between, betwixt, bewitch, bewrapt, brawest, cowiest, cowrite, cowrote, crewcut, crownet, dawties, dewater, dewiest, entwine, entwist, felwort, fitchew, forwent, fretsaw, gateway, getaway, howbeit, howlets, indwelt, inswept, intwine, kotowed, kotower, letdown, lewdest, network, newtons, outdrew, outflew, outgrew, outwear, outweep, outwent, outwept, outwile, outwore, overwet, peewits, pewters, powters, prowest, qwertys, retwist, rewrapt, rewrite, rewrote, seawant, slowest, steward, stewbum, stewing, stewpan, stowage, strawed, strewed, strewer, strowed, swathed, swather, swathes, swatted, swatter, sweated, sweater, sweeten, sweeter, sweetie, sweetly, swelter, sweltry, swifter, swither, swivets, swotted, swotter, tarweed, tawneys, tawnier, tawnies, tawpies, taxwise, teabowl, teaware, thawers, thewier, thrawed, thrower, tideway, tinware, towages, toweled, towered, towhead, towhees, towline, townees, townies, townlet, towrope, trawled, trawler, trawley, trowels, twaddle, twanged, twanger, twangle, twasome, twattle, tweaked, tweedle, tweeted, tweeter, tweezed, tweezer, tweezes, twelfth, twelves, twiddle, twigged, twiggen, twilled, twiners, twinged, twinges, twinier, twinjet, twinkle, twinned, twinset, twirled, twirler, twisted, twister, twitted, twitter, twofers, twosome, unswept, untwine, unwhite, upswept, upthrew, vawntie, wadsets, waftage, wafters, wafture, waisted, waister, waiters, wallets, waltzed, waltzer, waltzes, waniest, wannest, wantage, wanters, wariest, warmest, warstle, wartier, wartime, wastage, wasters, wastery, wastrel, wastrie, watapes, watched, watcher, watches, watered, waterer, wattage, wattape, wattest, wattled, wattles, wavelet, waviest, waxiest, weakest, wealths, wealthy, weather, webfeet, webfoot, website, webster, weeting, weights, weighty, welters, welting, wergelt, weskits, western, westers, westing, wetback, wethers, wetland, wetness, wetsuit, wetters, wettest, wetting, wettish, wetware, wheaten, whereat, whereto, whether, whetted, whetter, whiffet, whippet, whisted, whistle, whitely, whitens, whitest, whiteys, whither, whitier, whities, whitter, whittle, whortle, wickets, wideout, widgets, wiftier, wiglets, wildest, wiliest, willets, winglet, winiest, winters, wintery, wintled, wintles, wipeout, wiretap, wiriest, wisents, witched, witches, withers, withier, withies, witless, witness, witneys, wittier, worsets, worsted, worthed, wrastle, wrathed, wreathe, wreaths, wreathy, wrested, wrester, wrestle, writers, writeup, writhed, writhen, writher, writhes, written, wuthers.
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