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thraw
[ thraw, thrah ]
verb (used with object)
- British Dialect. to throw.
- Scot.
- to twist; distort.
- to oppose; thwart; vex.
verb (used without object)
- Scot. to disagree; object.
adjective
- Scot. thrawn ( def 2 ).
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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.'
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And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?
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So I spoke up and said the peasantry pronounced the word three, not thraw.
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All wrought as the Earl of Huntly wrought in the death thraw.
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My opponent could not thraw me, as 'ee have seen, and I couldn't thraw 'im.
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