Lexicographical Neighbors of Threaped
Literary usage of Threaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... with pertinacity; especially used in speaking of persistence in a false
accusation or assertion. " He threaped doon through. ... He threaped a lee i' me ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"... with pertinacity; especially used in speaking of persistence in a false
accusation or assertion. " He threaped doon through. ... He threaped a lee i' me ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(1) Obstinately to maintain or insist upon a thing in contradiction to another,
eg " He threaped me down it was so." Line. ..."
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