thrave

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sheaf; a handful. UK,dialectal
  2. Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — A daimen icker in a thrave / 'S a sma' request;
  3. Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng. UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — c. 16th century, Lansdowne manuscript The worst of a thrave.
动词 v.
  1. To urge; compel; importune. UK,dialectal,transitive

词形变化

thraves present,singular,third-person thraving participle,present thraved participle,past thraved past thraves plural threave alternative threve alternative

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English thrave, threve, thrafe, from Old Norse þrefi (“a bunch or handful of sheaves”), related to Old Norse þrifa (“to grasp”). Cognate with Swedish trave, Danish trave.
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