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threap

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THREAP

v.t.To chide, contend or argue. [Local. ]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

THREAP Threap, v. i.

Defn: To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] It's not for a man with a woman to threap. Percy's Reliques.

THREAP

THREAP Threap, n.

Defn: 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.