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

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thraw

About the middle o’ the night, The cocks began to craw, And at the dead hour o’ the night, The corpse began to thraw.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

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

From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray

Dost thee object to that, lass?—if so, say so noo afore it's too late, but doon't thraw it in moi face arterwards.

From Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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 Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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

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