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froe
/ frəʊ /
noun
- a cutting tool with handle and blade at right angles, used for stripping young trees, etc
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Origin of froe1
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Example Sentences
The trees are chopped in the fall, and then by means of a "froe" and axe each handle is roughly blocked out.
These are four feet in length, split with a froe six or eight inches wide, and half an inch thick.
The froe is held by the handle with the left hand and hammered on the top with a mallet held in the right hand.
In the fall of the year the trees are dropped, and in a rough way each handle is shaped by a tool they call a froe.
A couple of years later they paid a visit together, an enjoyable and profitable one, to the Froe Islands.
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