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

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Example Sentences

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thraw

It is written yonder within a thraw,   Now since that we drew lot. 3rd Torturer.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys

Wha was sae stout, and feared nae dout, As thraw ye o’er the linn?’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

Great love I bear to a' the fair, Their humble slave, an' a' that; But lordly will, I hold it still A mortal sin to thraw that.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

And you are going to thraw the Black Douglas for the cake of a glee woman?

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott

"Dinna thraw till I get a grip," cried Andrew, as the stranger had him already lifted from his feet—"that's no fair—it's no our country way o' thrawing."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

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