tawse

mainly Scot

a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher

to punish (someone) with or as if with a tawse; whip

Word Origin for tawse

C16: probably plural of obsolete taw strip of leather; see taw ²

This is an iron chain with a heavy knob at the end, to which a strap, like a Scotch tawse, is often attached.

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2) |W. Crooke
The chain is ordinarily three and a half feet long, the tawse two feet, and the total weight is about seven pounds.

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2) |W. Crooke
The serpent had unwound its coils; it lay revealed in all its hideousness—a teacher's tawse!

Bud |Neil Munro
The tawse had hung idle even for Paul for many and many a day.

Despair's Last Journey |David Christie Murray

I dinna think that e'er I had to raise the tawse to Sandy in my life.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland |John Mackay Wilson