thro

American

[throo] / θru /

Or thro'

preposition

Archaic.

archaic spellings of through.

thro' British

/ θruː /

preposition

informal variant spellings of through

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"SILVERSTONE NOWCAST: Increasing signs of potential shower / convergence line development from now thro FP3 into quali."

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2011

Yesterday I got past him because he was so busy yacking to someone that just I walked thro'.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2010

So the young heron fishing there in the foam On the sand's edge, Would once have taken my spirit far, far home To the infinite, when he vanished thro the gloam.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young

And about his person his gaberdine drew, For the wind it hugged and the snow beat thro'.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

I now sit down and write to you with satisfaction, for I have at length fairly waded thro the Slough of Despond.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

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