Definitions for froe

froe froe

Spelling: [froh]
IPA: /froʊ/

Froe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in froe (efor).

Definitions for froe

noun

  1. frow.
  2. a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.

Origin of froe

1615-25; earlier frower, perhaps noun use of froward in literal sense “turned away”

Examples for froe

The froe is held by the handle with the left hand and hammered on the top with a mallet held in the right hand.

A couple of years later they paid a visit together, an enjoyable and profitable one, to the froe Islands.

Perhaps the most striking features of the froe Islands are their sea-cliffs.

The trees are chopped in the fall, and then by means of a ‘froe’ and an axe, each handle is shaped out in a rough state.

These are four feet in length, split with a froe six or eight inches wide, and half an inch thick.

The trees are chopped in the fall, and then by means of a "froe" and axe each handle is roughly blocked out.

In the fall of the year the trees are dropped, and in a rough way each handle is shaped by a tool they call a froe.

Word Value for froe
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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