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Definition of Thrave
1. n. Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
Definition of Thrave
1. a unit of measure for grain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrave
Literary usage of Thrave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Notes and Queries by John Malcolm Bulloch (1894)
"... 35, 68 on A daimen icker in a thrave's a sma' on A Bibliography of Edinburgh
Periodical request, 77 on Auld Reekie, 78 on Nicknames of Scottish towns, ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1886)
"Long ere the Douglases came to the front, thrave had been the stronghold of ...
The present Castle of thrave, however, seems to have been principally the ..."
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