Lexicographical Neighbors of Threaps
Literary usage of Threaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... threaps down, was accompanied with forty thousand men, women, and children,
weeping from London to the Land's End, at Dover. ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... threaps us down, was accompanied with forty-thousand men, women, and children
weeping, from London to the Land's end, at Dover. ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... threaps us down, was accompanied with forty-thousand men, women, and children
weeping, from London to the Land's end, at Dover. ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... threaps us down, was accompanied with forty-thousand men, women, and children
weeping, from London to the Land's end, at Dover. ..."
5. An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters ; Or, The Story of My Education by Hugh Miller (1859)
"Donnart auld bodie," Peggy used to say ; " though she threaps hersel' a witch,
she's nae mair witch than I am; she's only just trying, in her feckless auld ..."
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