thraw

American  

[thraw, thrah] / θrɔ, θrɑ /

verb (used with object)

1. British Dialect. to throw.

2. Scot.

   1. to twist; distort.

   2. to oppose; thwart; vex.

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verb (used without object)

1. Scot. to disagree; object.

adjective

1. Scot. thrawn.

Etymology

Origin of thraw

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

Example Sentences

Prin iawn i medreis i ddeongli rhai pennillion o hono yma a thraw, y rhai a ellwch eu gweled yn y traethawd Lladin ynghylch y Beirdd. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

At e'en, whan darkness shrouds the sight, And lanely, langsome is the night, Wi' tentie care my pipes I 'll thraw, Play "A' the way to Gallowa'."

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

I know ye would like to thraw it into t' pa-ark, but I'll pay t' la-ast farthin'.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

Dod, Bawbie, I think the hoose has gotten a terriple thraw.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

Nowt o' me's zo zmall as can thraw to heaven through tha straight and narrer way.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie