meaw

meaw (third-person singular simple present meaws, present participle meawing, simple past and past participle meawed)

1. Dated form of meow.

meaw (plural meaws)

1. Dated form of meow.
   • 1881, Belgravia, volume 45:

     Was it a meaw I heard, and a scratching, or was it only the wind […]

meaw (plural meaws or meawes)

1. Obsolete form of mew (“seagull”).

• “meaw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• EWMA, wame