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thraw

  [thraw, thrah]
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–verb (used with object)
1. British Dialect. to throw.
2. Scot.
a. to twist; distort.
b. to oppose; thwart; vex.
–verb (used without object)
3. Scot. to disagree; object.
–adjective
4. Scot. thrawn (def. 1).
Origin:
(v.) Scots, N England dial. form of throw (retaining in part earliest sense of the word); (adj.) appar. shortened from thrawn
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Thraw

Thraw\ (thr[add]), n. & v. See Throse. [Scot.] --Burns.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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