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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 haw /ˈhɔ/
 山楂,吆喝牲畜左轉,呃,瞬膜(vt.)使向左轉(vi.)向左轉,支吾

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 haw /ˈhɔ/ 名詞
 瞬目(馬),山楂,瞬膜

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haw n.
 1. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
    And eke there was a polecat in his haw.   --Chaucer.
 2. The fruit of the hawthorn.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haw, n.  Anat. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haw, n.  An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made. “Hums or haws.”

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haw, v. i. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
    Cut it short; don't prose -- don't hum and haw.   --Chesterfield.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haw, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hawed p. pr. & vb. n. Hawing.]   To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.
 To haw and gee, or To haw and gee about, to go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable. [Colloq.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haw, v. t. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
 To haw and gee, or To haw and gee about, to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to master or control. [Colloq.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 haw
      n 1: a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus
           Crataegus [syn: hawthorn]
      2: the nictitating membrane of a horse
      v : utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"