thraw

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[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

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

From Following the Equator — Part 1 by Mark Twain

They say he is about to marry the daughter of Leddy Ashton; and let her leddyship get his head ance under her oxter, and see you if she winna gie his neck a thraw.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott

"And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?" said the old dame, scoffingly.

From The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott

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

At e'en, whan darkness shrouds the sight, And lanely, langsome is the night, Wi' tentie care my pipes I 'll thraw, Play "A' the way to Gallowa'."

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers

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