Usually means: To pull or haul vigorously.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. touse: Merriam-Webster
  2. touse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. touse: Wordnik
  4. touse: Wiktionary
  5. touse: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Touse, touse: Dictionary.com
  7. Touse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. touse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Touse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. touse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. TOUSE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  12. touse: FreeDictionary.org
  13. touse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (touse)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pull to pieces.
▸ noun:  a noisy disturbance

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