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 aye he gied his nose a thraw,   And aye he crook't his mou; And aye he cockit up his ee   And said, Tak tent the noo!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

The cocks began to craw; And at the dead hour o' the night, The corpse began to thraw.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Sidgwick, Frank

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 Palgrave, Francis Turner

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

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss