Definitions for thraw

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

Thraw is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in thraw (ahrtw).

Definitions for thraw

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 thraw

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

Examples for thraw

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

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

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

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

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

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 thraw
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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