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thrave
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-Germanic *þrab?n? (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Sirionó 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”).
Verb
thrave (third-person singular simple present thraves, present participle thraving, simple past and past participle thraved)
- (transitive, Britain, dialectal) To urge; compel; importune.
Related terms
- thraft
Etymology 2
From Middle English thrave, threve, thrafe, from Old Norse þrefi (“a bunch or handful of sheaves”), related to Old Norse þrifa (“to grasp”). Cognate with Swedish trave, Danish trave.
Alternative forms
- threave (obsolete), threve (obsolete)
Noun
thrave (plural thraves)
- (Britain, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.
- c. 16th century, Lansdowne MS
- The worst of a thrave.
- c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires
- He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale.
- c. 16th century, Lansdowne MS
Anagrams
- raveth
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threave
English
Noun
threave (plural threaves)
- Obsolete form of thrave.
Anagrams
- veather
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