Obs. Also awband. [f. AWE sb.1 (in sense of Norse agi ‘discipline, constraint’) + BAND.] A curb, check, restraint; ‘a band for tying black cattle to the stake … used to keep in order the more unruly animals’ (Jamieson).
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 293. The said castel suld be ane awband aganis thame.
c. 1565. R. Lindsay, Chron. Scot. (1728), 182. To keep him still as an awe-band above the Governor’s head.
1653. Baxter, Peace Consc., 159. Fears of the wrath of God … are … the awe-band of your soul.
