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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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