Thraw v.

the earlier form of THROW v.¹, retained in northern dialect in all senses of the verb, and preserving in Scottish use a group of senses in which throw is not in English use, or, when occasionally used by English writers, is taken in the Sc. form as a distinct word; viz. the senses: To turn, twist, turn awry, contort, distort (esp. to make a wry face or mouth, cf. THRAWN ppl. a.); to wrest, warp, strain, or distort (words or their meaning); to wrench; to extort; to cross, thwart, vex, manifest opposition or ill temper. For these see THROW v.¹, senses 1 to 5 b. So Thraw sb., northern and Sc. form of THROW sb.²: see esp. senses 1, b, c.