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

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 Rhys, Ernest

So I spoke up and said the peasantry pronounced the word three, not thraw.

From Following the Equator — Part 1 by Twain, Mark

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

About the middle of the nightThe cocks began to craw;And at the dead hour of the night,The corpse began to thraw.

From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew

"And than," said he, bestowing a hearty thump on his pupil's back, "no a man i' Cummerland need thraw the', if thou nobbut fews onything like!"

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney