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 Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Threap\ (thr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Threaped}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Threaping}.] [AS. [thorn]re['a]pian to
reprove.] [Written also {threpe}, and {threip}.]
1. To call; to name. [Obs.]
2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction;
also, to contend or argue against (another) with
obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was
so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns.
3. To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
4. To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
\Threap\, v. i.
To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
It's not for a man with a woman to threap. --Percy's
Reliques.
\Threap\, n.
An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious
affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
He was taken a threap that he would have it finished
before the year was done. --Carlyle.
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