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Entry 4 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Throe

· IPA /θɹoʊ/
01 n. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
  1. 1.
    Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
    “Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
02 v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
  1. 1.
    To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
03 v. t. To put in agony.
  1. 1.
    To put in agony.[R.]