Haw

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Haw or HAW may refer to:

• Sissipahaw or Haw people, a former tribe of the Siouan speaking Nations in the American Southeast.
• Nictitating membrane, a transparent or translucent third eyelid on the eyes of some animals
• Haw and gee, directional commands to a draft animal
• Hawaiian language, from its ISO 639 language code
• Haw wars (1865–1890), fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand
• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
• A yard or close, such as the former churchyard of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw in the City of London

Fruit

• many species of hawthorn (Crataegus)
• several species of Viburnum including:
  • Viburnum rufidulum
  • Viburnum prunifolium
  • Viburnum nudum
• Haw flakes, Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn, Crataegus pinnatifida

Places

• New Haw, a village in Surrey
• Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River in north central North Carolina
• Haw River Valley AVA
• Haverfordwest Aerodrome, Pembrokeshire, Wales

People

• Brian Haw (1949–2011), protester in London's Parliament Square
• Robbie Haw (born 1986), English footballer
• Adrian Hardy Haworth, Haw. in botanical nomenclature, an English entomologist and botanist

See also

• Hawthorn (disambiguation)