Usually means: Hesitate in speech; say "haw."
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word haw:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. haw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. haw, haw, haw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haw, haw, haw, haw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haw, haw: Wordnik
  7. haw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Haw, haw: Wiktionary
  9. haw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Haw, haw: Dictionary.com
  13. haw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. haw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Haw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Haw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. haw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. haw: Rhymezone
  19. Haw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. haw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. haw: Free Dictionary
  22. haw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. haw: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. haw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. HAW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. haw: Idioms
  4. haw: Wordcraft Dictionary
  5. HAW: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. H.A.W, Haw: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hawed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
noun:  Fruit of the hawthorn.
noun:  (historical) A hedge.
noun:  (obsolete) Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
verb:  (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
verb:  To cause (an animal) to turn left.
noun:  (countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
noun:  (uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.
noun:  A topographic and patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
noun:  A river in the US state of North Carolina.

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