skinsleather(of skin, leather) tawed, dressed, treated with a solution of alum and salt as a means of preserving it and making it workable:
(
c.1423
) [...] que nulle meistre ne servaunt tewe nulle manere de werk ne furrour avaunt le temps que les serchours eient notice et vewe d’eux
YMB i 60
(
1463
) harneis pur ceinctes, de ferre, de laton, d’asser, d’estaine ou de alkemine, ascune chose overee, d’ascun quirre tawé, ascun maner pellure tawé, huseons, solers, galoges ou corkes, cotels, daggers, wodeknyves
Stats ii 397
tawer1 (c.1423)