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

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Example Sentences

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thraw

Bigonet, little cap: probably altered from béguinette: thraw, twist: caller, fresh.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

And you are going to thraw the Black Douglas for the cake of a glee woman?

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott

It is written yonder within a thraw,   Now since that we drew lot. 3rd Torturer.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys

Between three and thirteen, thraw the woodie when it's green.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

Great love I bear to a’ the fair, Their humble slave, an’ a’ that; But lordly will, I hold it still A mortal sin to thraw that.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

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