different between mawed vs sawed

English

maw +? -ed

mawed (not comparable)

Having a maw (of a specified kind).
- 1851, Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord, Caius Gracchus
  […] Which, piling private ill on public wrong, / Beneath the garb of patriotism hides / Its large-mawed cravings […]

Rhymes: -??d
Homophones: sod (in accents with the cot-caught merger), sword (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Regular addition of the past tense suffix -ed to saw.

sawed

Nonstandard addition of -ed to saw, which is already a strong past tense form of see.

sawed

(dialectal, often humorous) simple past tense of see
- 1903, Darnley: Or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold:
  "Yes, yes, el Pero! that was himself!" cried the captain; "I sawed him at the ale-house at Penzance with my own eye."

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