Definitions for thraws

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Spelling: [thraw, thrah]
IPA: /θrɔ, θrɑ/

Thraws is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in thraws (ahrstw).

Definitions for thraws

adjective

  1. Scot. thrawn (def 1).

verb (used with object)

  1. British Dialect. to throw.
  2. Scot. to twist; distort. to oppose; thwart; vex.

verb (used without object)

  1. Scot. to disagree; object.

Origin of thraws

(v.) Scots, N England dialect form of throw (retaining in part earliest sense of the word); (adj.) apparently shortened from thrawn

Examples for thraws

So I spoke up and said the peasantry pronounced the word three, not thraw.

Between three and thirteen, thraw the woodie when it's green.

My opponent could not thraw me, as 'ee have seen, and I couldn't thraw 'im.

Sit down an thraw aff your dirty claes, an tell us what ye hae seen the night.

But I'm not the woman to see ye disappointed, and I think if ye'll try me, I'll thraw ye myself.'

And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?

Nowt o' me's zo zmall as can thraw to heaven through tha straight and narrer way.

That corpses might begin to “thraw,” if carelessly watched, was a prevalent superstition.

Word Value for thraws
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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