Definition of "waw"

waw¹

/wɔː/

verb
third-person singular simple present waws, present participle wawing, simple past and past participle wawed
1. (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

waw²

/wɔː/

noun
plural waws
1. (obsolete) A wave.
  Quotations
  […] 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.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

waw³

/wɔː/

noun
plural waws
1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
  Quotations
  She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
  1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75
  T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
  1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, section 41

waw⁴

/wɑːw/

noun
plural waws
1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
2. Alternative spelling of vav
  Quotations
  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.
  2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page 147