bashaw Meaning, Definition & Usage

Ba*shaw" noun
Etymology
See Pasha.
Definitions
  1. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
  2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
  3. (Zoöl.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

Webster 1913