thrave
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of thrave
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (UK, dialectal, transitive)To urge; compel; importune.
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verb
- (UK, dialectal, transitive)To urge; compel; importune.
noun
- (UK, dialectal)A sheaf; a handful.
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
“A daimen icker in a thrave / 'S a sma' request;”
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.
“c. 16th century, Lansdowne manuscript The worst of a thrave.”
“He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale.”
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Etymology
From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrabōn, from Proto-Germanic *þrabōną (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper;…
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From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrabōn, from Proto-Germanic *þrabōną (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian troawje, droawje (“to trot”), West Frisian drave (“to trot”), Dutch draven (“to lope; trot”), German traben (“to trot”), Swedish trava (“to trot”), Icelandic þrefa (“to wrangle; dispute”).
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