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Threave

Threave \Threave\, n. Same as Thrave. [Obs.]

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threave

n. (obsolete form of thrave English)

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Threave

Threave may refer to:

  • Threave Castle, a castle in Scotland
  • Threave Gardens, a garden in Scotland
  • Threave Rovers F.C., a football team from Castle Douglas, Scotland

Usage examples of "threave".

He'll be waiting for you at Threave, anxious to have your views on Lord Maxwell's offer to surrender Lochmaben to the English.

As the rose and the rat and the whale and the beaver yield their essence, so the glands of Threave answered love, warmth and terror with dispassionate violence.

Scott, talking to a fleshy man with a thick yellow eye and a jovial smile, the captain of Threave, looked away as the crowd surged around the drum tower.

He saw her, saw the blowing red hair and listening face and then no more, for with an uproar greater than all Threave could offer, his father and his father's train appeared.

There's half Threave out hunting him, but deil knows the start he's got.

For there is the dear man in prison at Threave, and here we are, doing very little about it.

Could all the chains of Threave outweigh what I already bear, do you think?

The expression 'grim as Threave' was a favourite of my father, who had taken pleasure in the story of how the Sanctor Colnor built Threave as a place to sequester his unfaithful queen.