thraw

[ thraw, thrah ]

verb (used with object)

1. British Dialect. to throw.
2. Scot.
   1. to twist; distort.
   2. to oppose; thwart; vex.

verb (used without object)

1. Scot. to disagree; object.

adjective

1. Scot. thrawn ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of thraw¹

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

Example Sentences

But I'm not the woman to see ye disappointed, and I think if ye'll try me, I'll thraw ye myself.'

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And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?

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

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All wrought as the Earl of Huntly wrought in the death thraw.

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My opponent could not thraw me, as 'ee have seen, and I couldn't thraw 'im.

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