What is "tawes"

Taws \Taws\, n. [See Taw to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.]

Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
--Ramsay.

Tawes is a surname. It is also applied to some buildings.