Verb

1. In the context of "of an animal": To turn left.

   This horse won't haw when I tell him to.

2. To cause (an animal) to turn left.

   You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.

Derived terms

• gee haw whimmy diddle
• hem and haw
• hum and haw

Antonyms

• sense to turn left gee
• sense to cause to turn left gee

Haw may refer to:

• Haw, the nictitating membrane on the eyes of some animals
• HAW, the ISO 639 language code for the Hawaiian language
• Haw and gee, directional commands to a draft animal
• Haw wars (1865 - 1890), fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand.

The fruit of the Common Hawthorn or its relatives:

• • Haw flakes, Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn

Places:

• New Haw, a village in Surrey
• Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River in north central North Carolina

People:

• Brian Haw (born 1949), British Parliament square protester
• Haw. in botanical nomenclature stands for Adrian Hardy Haworth, an English entomologist and botanist

See also:

• Hawthorn (disambiguation)

avert, bear off, draw aside, ease off, edge off, falter, fly off, gee, glance, glance off, go off, halt, head off, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hum, hum and haw, jib, make way for, mammer, move aside, sheer off, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, stammer, steer clear of, step aside, stumble, stutter, switch, turn aside, turn away, turn back, veer off