| 单词 | froe |
| 释义 | ▪ I. froe, frow Now chiefly U.S.|frəʊ|
Also 6–7 frower, 7 frowe, frau, 8 fro.
[The synonymous fromward suggests that the earliest form frower represents a subst. use of froward a. in the lit. sense ‘turned away’, the reference being to the position of the handle.]
1. A wedge-shaped tool used for cleaving and riving staves, shingles, etc. It has a handle in the plane of the blade, set at right angles to the back.
1573Tusser Husb. xvii. (1878) 36 A frower of iron, for cleauing of lath. 1616J. Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. ix. 63 In⁓castinge stooles, ropes, froes, chaines..and all trassh whatsoever. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iv. Wks. (Arb.) 608 Tooles [required]..5 frowes to cleaue pale. 1668Worlidge Dict. Rust., A Frower, an Edge-tool used in cleaving Lath. 1685R. Burton Eng. Emp. Amer. x. 149 A set of Wedges and Fraus..to every family. 1775Romans Hist. Florida 182 A river or splitter, who rives them [trees] with the fro. 1851S. Judd Margaret xvi. (1871) 137 With froe in one hand and mallet in the other. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 918 Frow (Coopering).
†2. (See quot.; perh. a distinct word.) Obs.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 20 Those warming pinnes..which of some are called Froes, and being put into their cases, and those cases wrapped in linnen bagges, doe serve to heate beddes.
▪ II. froe
obs. form of frow, Dutchwoman. |
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