throe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: throe	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for throe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
throe n severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth" hard or painful trouble or struggle; "a country in the throes of economic collapse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Throe \Throe\, n. [OE. [thorn]rowe, [thorn]rawe, AS. [thorn]re[a0] a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. [thorn]r[be] a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. [thorn]reowian to suffer.] 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. --Milton. 2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Throe \Throe\, v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Throe \Throe\, v. t. To put in agony. [R.] --Shak.