English Explanatory Dictionary

thrave

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To urge; compel; importune.
noun
  1. A sheaf; a handful.
  2. Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
  3. Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.

Word forms

thrave thraves thraving thraved threave threve

Etymology

From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrabōn, from Proto-Germanic *þrabōną (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian 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”).

Related words

thraft
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