different between froe vs frore

English

Alternative forms

• frow

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?o?/
• Homophones: 'fro, fro

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of obsolete frower, from froward (“turned away”), referring to the orientation of the blade, at right angles to the handle. From late 16th century.

Noun

froe (plural froes)

1. A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block.

Translations

Derived terms

• froe club

Etymology 2

See frow.

Noun

froe (plural froes)

1. (obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
   • 1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, [from The Muses Elizium], 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618,

     Like to tho?e raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' fea?ts prepared;

References

Anagrams

• Fore, Freo, OFer, fore, fore-, o-fer, ofer, orfe

English

Etymology

From Middle English froren, past participle of fresen (“to freeze”), from Old English fr?osan.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Adjective

frore (comparative more frore, superlative most frore)

1. (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
   • 1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:

     We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,

     Expiring in the frore and foggy air.

   • 1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:

     For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16

     Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.

   • c. 1916,, Rupert Brooke, Song

     My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.

Translations

Verb

frore

1. (archaic, rare) simple past tense and past participle of freeze
   • c. 1834,, Mary Howitt, The Sea:

     And down below all fretted and frore,
     Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]

Anagrams

• Ferro, ferro-

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• fiore

Etymology

From earlier *flore, from Latin fl?rem, accusative singular of fl?s (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *fl?s (accusative *fl?zem), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?s (“flower, blossom”), derived from the root *b?leh?- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???e/

Noun

frore m (plural frores)

1. flower