" haws "

[Verb]  | "haw" 

1: to utter the sound represented by haw

2: equivocate

Origin: 1632 ;

 Derivative of {see: |haw:3|haw:3};

[Verb]  | "haw" 

1: —used as a direction to turn to the left

2: to turn to the near or left side

Origin: 1777 ;

 Probably from {see: |haw:3|haw:3} used as a command to an animal;

[Noun]  | "haw" | \ ˈhȯ \

1: a hawthorn berry

2: hawthorn

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English hawe, going back to Old English haga, weak masculine noun, formally identical with haga "fence, fenced enclosure, hedge" (whence Middle English hawe in same sense), going back to Germanic *hagan- (whence also Middle Dutch hage "thornbush," haghe "thornbush forming a border," Old Icelandic hagi "enclosed field, pasture"), derivative of a base *hag- see:n also in *haga-, masculine a-stem, whence Old English hæg- "enclosure" (in placenames), Old High German hag "palisade, enclosed land"; in *hagi-, masculine i-stem, whence Old English hege "hedge, fence, boundary wall" (whence Middle English heye, haie, in part reflecting also Anglo-French haie "hedge, fence"), Middle Low German hege; in *hagjō {see: |hedge:1|hedge:1}; in *hagna-, masculine a-stem, derivative with the suffix of appurtenance -na-, whence Old Saxon hagan "thornbush, buckthorn," Middle Dutch haghen "enclosure," Old High German hagan "thornbush, plants of the genera Crataegus and Rhamnus"; Germanic hag- going back to dialectal Indo-European *kagh- "enclosure," whence also Celtic *kagi̯o- (whence Welsh cae "hedge, hedgerow, field," Cornish ke "hedge, ditch," Old Breton caiou glossing munimenta "defensive works, barrier," Breton kae "hedge, field") and probably Latin caulae, plural only, "railing, lattice forming a barrier" (going back to *kahelā);

  * Note : Old English haga in the sense "hawthorn berry" may have been extracted from hagaþorn {hawthorn|hawthorn} or an unattested compound with berie {berry:1|berry:1}. Germanic *hag- "enclosure," with its numerous derivative stems, appears to have been intimately connected with the thorny plants such as Crataegus used to form hedges. — The northwest Indo-European etymon *kagh- "enclosure" has been associated with a verb of the same form meaning approximately "grasp, enclose," which is hypothetically the source of Umbrian kukehes "you (or s/he) will reach," Oscan kahad "s/he takes," as well as some of the forms of Welsh cael "to get, receive" (see: Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben, 2. Auflage, p. 342). The Lexikon shows this form as both *kagh- and *ḱagh-, as *kagh- violates an Indo-European root structure constraint (though comparable forms in a satem language are lacking); a stricter laryngealist notation would be *ḱh2gh-. Also connected with this verb is Latin cohum "hollow in the middle of a yoke"—see: {inchoate|inchoate}. See also {quay|quay}.;

[Noun]  | "haw" 

1: nictitating membrane; especially : an inflamed nictitating membrane of a domesticated mammal

Origin: 1523 ;

 Middle English howe, hawe "morbid excrescence in the eye," of uncertain origin;

[Noun]  | "hee-haw" | \ ˈhē-ˌhȯ \

1: the bray of a donkey

2: a loud rude laugh : guffaw

Origin: 1815 ;

 Imitative;

[Idiom]  | "hem and haw" 

1: to stop often and change what one is saying during speech because one is not sure of what to say or because one is trying to avoid saying something

2: to take a long time before making a decision about what to do

[Verb]  | "haws" 

[Verb]  | "hee-haws" 

[Verb]  | "hee-haw" 

[Noun]  | "hee-haws" 

[Noun]  | "hee-haw" 

[Phrase]  | "hems and haws" 

[Phrase]  | "hem and haw"