froe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
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- 4
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Definition of froe
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.
“Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?”
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noun
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A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.
“Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?”
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(obsolete)A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
“1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, [from The Muses Elizium], 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618, Like to thoſe raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' feaſts prepared;”
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Etymology
Abbreviation of obsolete frower, from froward (“turned away”), referring to the orientation of the blade, at right angles to the handle. From late 16th century.
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