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

1. Scot. thrawn ( def 2 ).

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

Example Sentences

"Mak haste, sirs," cried the paralytic hag from the cottage, "and let us do what is needfu', and say what is fitting; for, if the dead corpse binna straughted, it will girn and thraw, and that will fear the best o' us."

From Project Gutenberg

“My brethren,” he sed wi a tear in his ee, “Yah sall hear for yerselns my accusers an’ me, An’ if I be guilty—man’s liable to fall As well as yer pastor an’ servant John Ball; But let my accuser, if faults he hes noan, Be’t t’first, and no other to thraw the first stone.

From Project Gutenberg

Thr�′ward, Thr�′wart, obstinate; Thrawn, twisted: perverse.—Heads and thraws, lying beside each other, the head of the one by the feet of the other; In the dead thraw, in the agony of death.

From Project Gutenberg

Her dolesome death be worse than Jezebel, Whom through an window surely men did thraw; Whose blood did lap the cruel hundis fell, And doggis could her wicked bainis gnaw.

From Project Gutenberg

"Thraw it up, man, and ye'll feel a' the better!"

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