Category:Throe

Throe, n. Etym: [oe. ,, as. a threatening, oppression, suffering, Perhaps influenced by icel. a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. As. to Suffer.]

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. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Throe Throe, v. i.

Defn: to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Throe Throe, v. t.

Defn: to put in agony. [r.] Shak.