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lawe

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of lawe

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet, to hinder it from hunting).
    “They were enveloped in forms, and easily evaded ; like a lawed dog, too mutilated to catch their game.”
    “The Vicar of Bacford for the same John Miller there for the same Beatrice de Coghull for one dog not lawed.”
    “Godric rarely entered the forest, and, having already trained Harold to help with driving the sheep, at which the young dog had shown a remarkable talent, he had no wish to have him lawed.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet, to hinder it from hunting).
    “They were enveloped in forms, and easily evaded ; like a lawed dog, too mutilated to catch their game.”
    “The Vicar of Bacford for the same John Miller there for the same Beatrice de Coghull for one dog not lawed.”
    “Godric rarely entered the forest, and, having already trained Harold to help with driving the sheep, at which the young dog had shown a remarkable talent, he had no wish to have him lawed.”

noun

  1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of law (“system of regulations etc.”).

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Etymology

Perhaps from law because the practice was ordained by law. Few dictionaries comment directly on the etymology of the sense, but several (which also spell the infinitive law) group it with the other verb and noun senses derived from Old English lagu (“law”).

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