thrave

British  

/ θreɪv /

noun

1. dialect twenty-four sheaves of corn

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Etymology

Origin of thrave

Old English threfe, of Scandinavian origin

Example Sentences

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thrave

The Hospital of St. Nicholas, Carlisle, had from its foundation been endowed with a thrave of corn from every ploughland in Cumberland.

From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

The hospital of St. Leonard's, near York, had received, from an ancient grant of King Athelstane, a right of levying a thrave of corn upon every ploughland in the county.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

His childer thrave like willow wands,    An made fine maids an men, But th' thowt ne'er entered in his nut,    'At he grew old hissen.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley

A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An' never miss't!

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave

Of thee she entertains the blessed throngs, And says to them, while yet my body thrave On earth, I gat much honour which he gave, Commending me in his commended songs.

From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner