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thraw
[ thraw, thrah ]
verb (used with object)
- British Dialect. to throw.
- Scot.
- to twist; distort.
- to oppose; thwart; vex.
verb (used without object)
- Scot. to disagree; object.
adjective
- Scot. thrawn ( def 2 ).
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
âMy brethren,â he sed wi a tear in his ee, âYah sall hear for yerselns my accusers anâ me, Anâ if I be guiltyâmanâs liable to fall As well as yer pastor anâ servant John Ball; But let my accuser, if faults he hes noan, Beât tâfirst, and no other to thraw the first stone.
Thrďż˝â˛ward, Thrďż˝â˛wart, obstinate; Thrawn, twisted: perverse.âHeads 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.
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.
"Thraw it up, man, and ye'll feel a' the better!"
"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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