Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrawed
Literary usage of Thrawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings: With Lives by Thomas & George Allan (Firm) (1891)
"He thrawed fifteen, which was considered a wunder, Another got five for ti hang
on his peg; But Bill Thompson, the trimmer, gar'd Bill's ..."
2. Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago: Being a Series of Articles Illustrative of by Maria Trotter, Saxon, Robert De Bruce Trotter (1877)
"... and greedy for three times as much money as their places were worth ; and so
they thrawed with him, and would neither sell nor shift. ..."
3. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare (2001)
"7. thralled] thrawed Tuck. conj. 12. it nor] it not Mai.1 8. th'] Ben.-Evans,
Coll., Huds., growes] dries Cap. glows Dyce, Sta., Wh.1, Hal., Cam.1, Dow., ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"... pitched (the meaning in all these cases ia set)." JW Pitch-te, v. to set to work.
Planchen, a board; a wooden floor. "thrawed his hat on the planchen, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"James, on the strength of this story, obtained great credit for repartee in his
own little world, and was looked up to as one who had thrawed the up-country ..."
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