thraw

[ thraw, thrah ]

/ θrɔ, θrɑ /

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verb (used with object)

British Dialect. to throw.

Scot.

verb (used without object)

Scot. to disagree; object.

adjective

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Origin of thraw

(v.) Scots, N England dialect form of throw (retaining in part earliest sense of the word); (adj.) apparently shortened from thrawn

But I'm not the woman to see ye disappointed, and I think if ye'll try me, I'll thraw ye myself.'
Ben Comee|M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?
The Black Dwarf|Sir Walter Scott
So I spoke up and said the peasantry pronounced the word three, not thraw.
Following the Equator, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
All wrought as the Earl of Huntly wrought in the death thraw.
The Mystery of Mary Stuart|Andrew Lang

My opponent could not thraw me, as 'ee have seen, and I couldn't thraw 'im.
Ande Trembath|Matthew Stanley Kemp