THREAPED

Verb

threaped

simple past tense and past participle of threap

Anagrams

• predeath

Source: Wiktionary

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THREAP

Threap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Threaping.] Etym: [AS. 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.

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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