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   Throe , n. [OE. þrowe, þrawe, AS. þreá a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. þrā a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. þreowian to suffer.]
    Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
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   Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.
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   A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
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   Throe, v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
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   Throe, v. t. To put in agony. [R.]
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