Meaning of Waw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of write after write, a kind of data hazard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
2. A wave.
   obsolete
3. A wall.
   Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
4. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
5. Alternative spelling of vav.
   alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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.”

“She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.”

“T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.”

“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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