Advertisement

thraw

[ thraw, thrah ]

verb (used with object)

  1. British Dialect. to throw.
  2. Scot.
    1. to twist; distort.
    2. to oppose; thwart; vex.


verb (used without object)

  1. Scot. to disagree; object.

adjective

Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of thraw1

(v.) Scots, N England dialect form of throw (retaining in part earliest sense of the word); (adj.) apparently shortened from thrawn
Discover More

Example Sentences

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

And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?

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

All wrought as the Earl of Huntly wrought in the death thraw.

My opponent could not thraw me, as 'ee have seen, and I couldn't thraw 'im.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


thravethrawart