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

"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

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

Between three and thirteen, thraw the woodie when it's green.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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

From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by Canavan, M. J. (Michael Joseph)

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 Rogers, Charles