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• a variation of frow.

froe

British  

/ frəʊ /

noun

1. a cutting tool with handle and blade at right angles, used for stripping young trees, etc

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Etymology

Origin of froe

C16: from frower , from froward (in the sense: turned away)

Example Sentences

He split the felled tree with a wedge, then used a heavy blade called a froe to cut them into the proper lengths for furniture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within a few days, Joe had mastered the froe and the mallet and could size up a log and split shakes from it nearly as quickly and decisively as Charlie could.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Father cut a green black oak and sawed off some bolts, took a froe, that he brought from York State, and rived out shakes three inches wide and about an inch thick.

From The Bark Covered House by Nowlin, William

The first good shoot that Robin ledd, Did not shoote an inch the pricke froe, Guy was an archer good enoughe, But he could neere shoote soe.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Again, it is imperfect when the chilliness, flatness, the essential oils, the taste of earth and of cask, and above all, an excess of froe spirit, are manifestly noticed at the base of that organ.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.