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throe


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Throe  \Throe\,  n.  [OE.  [thorn]rowe,  [thorn]rawe,  AS 
  [thorn]re['a]  a  threatening,  oppression,  suffering,  perhaps 
  influenced  by  Icel.  [thorn]r[=a]  a  throe,  a  pang,  a  longing; 
  cf  AS  [thorn]reowian  to  suffer.] 
  1.  Extreme  pain;  violent  pang;  anguish;  agony;  especially, 
  one  of  the  pangs  of  travail  in  childbirth,  or  purturition. 
 
  Prodogious  motion  felt,  and  rueful  throes.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  A  tool  for  splitting  wood  into  shingles;  a  frow. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Throe  \Throe\,  v.  i. 
  To  struggle  in  extreme  pain;  to  be  in  agony;  to  agonize. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Throe  \Throe\,  v.  t. 
  To  put  in  agony.  [R.]  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  throe 
  n  1:  severe  spasm  of  pain:  "the  throes  of  dying";  "the  throes  of 
  childbirth" 
  2:  hard  or  painful  trouble  or  struggle:  "a  country  in  the 
  throes  of  economic  collapse" 




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