Usually means: Leather strap used for punishment.
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  7. tawse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tawse)

noun:  (chiefly Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To beat with a tawse.

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