Associations to the word «Thrave»

Wiktionary

THRAVE, verb. (transitive) (UK) (dialectal) To urge; compel; importune.
THRAVE, noun. (UK) (dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
THRAVE, noun. (UK) (dialect) (obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
THRAVE, noun. (UK) (dialect) (obsolete) Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne