Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bashaw

Bashaw ({not transcribed}) , noun

[See Pasha.]

1.
A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
2.
Figuratively: A magnate or grandee.
3.
(Zoology) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.