[…] nigh it drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift: For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.
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Waw
//wɔː//
Synonyms for "waw"
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4 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- وَاو noun (Arabic letter)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- vau noun (Arabic letter)
Finnish
1 entries- vav noun (Arabic letter)
French
1 entries- waw noun (Arabic letter)
Gujarati
1 entries- વાવ noun (Arabic letter)
Hebrew
1 entries- וי״ו noun (Arabic letter)
Hindi
1 entries- वाव noun (Arabic letter)
Italian
1 entries- vau noun (Arabic letter)
Malay
1 entries- wau noun (Arabic letter)
Persian
1 entries- واو noun (Arabic letter)
Russian
1 entries- вав noun (Arabic letter)
Tajik
1 entries- вов noun (Arabic letter)
Turkish
1 entries- vav noun (Arabic letter)
Urdu
1 entries- وَاو noun (Arabic letter)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
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T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
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Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.
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