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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

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