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Tawse

The tawse, sometimes formerly spelled taws (the plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip), is an implement for corporal punishment applied either to the buttocks (see spanking) or the palm of the hand (known as hand tawsing). The tawse is a leather strap that has one end split into one or more prongs. A spanking administered with a tawse is technically…

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Tawse

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Triples35
Avg. degree1.94
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related to Sources and external links · 18
Tawse → Archived, Factsheet, Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, Heatherbank Museum, July, June, Lochgelly Tawse Archived, PDF, Retrieved, Scottish Schools, September, Social Work, The Belt, The Cane, The True History, Wayback Machine, World Corporal Punishment Research
related to Schools · 7
Tawse → Deputy Headmaster, It, Nearly, Pupils, Scottish, The, This
related to Judicial · 5
Tawse → Courts, Judicial, Scotland, The, This
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Tawse → leather strap that has one end split into one or more prongs

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schools used punishment tawsing corporal spanking also scottish hand school either administered palm strokes force pupils known strap educational judicial

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Tawseis aleather strap that has one end split into one or more prongs0.90text
Fettes College used the cane insteadinstance ofbut others0.80text
as did most schools in England outside the north-east.In 1982instance ofbut others0.80text
two Scottish mothers went to the European Court of Human Rightsinstance ofbut others0.80text
who passed a judgment that parents had the right to refuse corporal punishment of a childinstance ofbut others0.80text
Tawserelated to JudicialThe0.60section
Tawserelated to JudicialScotland0.60section
Tawserelated to JudicialCourts0.60section
Tawserelated to JudicialThis0.60section
Tawserelated to JudicialJudicial0.60section
Tawserelated to SchoolsScottish0.60section
Tawserelated to SchoolsPupils0.60section

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