˜yĐÄvlog

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thraw

[ thraw, thrah ]

verb (used with object)

  1. British Dialect. to throw.
  2. Scot.
    1. to twist; distort.
    2. to oppose; thwart; vex.


verb (used without object)

  1. Scot. to disagree; object.

adjective

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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of thraw1

(v.) Scots, N England dialect form of throw (retaining in part earliest sense of the word); (adj.) apparently shortened from thrawn
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Example Sentences

“My brethren,” he sed wi a tear in his ee, “Yah sall hear for yerselns my accusers an’ me, An’ if I be guilty—man’s liable to fall As well as yer pastor an’ servant John Ball; But let my accuser, if faults he hes noan, Be’t t’first, and no other to thraw the first stone.

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Thr�′ward, Thr�′wart, obstinate; Thrawn, twisted: perverse.—Heads and thraws, lying beside each other, the head of the one by the feet of the other; In the dead thraw, in the agony of death.

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Her dolesome death be worse than Jezebel, Whom through an window surely men did thraw; Whose blood did lap the cruel hundis fell, And doggis could her wicked bainis gnaw.

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"Thraw it up, man, and ye'll feel a' the better!"

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"And than," said he, bestowing a hearty thump on his pupil's back, "no a man i' Cummerland need thraw the', if thou nobbut fews onything like!"

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