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Thring

Thring \Thring\, v. t. & i. [imp. Throng.] [AS. [thorn]ringan. See Throng.] To press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

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thring

vb. 1 (context transitive archaic English) To thrust; to crowd. 2 (context intransitive archaic English) To push; to force one's way.

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Thring

Thring is a surname of British origin. It may refer to:

  • Edward Thring (1821–1887), British educator
  • F. W. Thring (1883–1936), Australian filmmaker
  • Frank Thring (1926–1994), Australian actor
  • Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), British hymn writer
  • Henry Thring (1818–1907), British lawyer
  • J. C. Thring (1824–1909), British football rulemaker
  • Meredith Thring (1915–2006), British inventor

Usage examples of "thring".

So Cosset, Thring and Noble began their investigations, and Bee went back to Latchetts to deal with the problem of postponing the coming-of-age celebrations.

Sandal announced to Bee that Cosset, Thring and Noble were now prepared to accept the claimant as Patrick Ashby, the eldest son of William Ashby of Latchetts, and to hand over to him everything that was due to him.

Only the Rector, Bee, Charles, Eleanor, and the firm of Cosset, Thring and Noble knew, so far, that Brat was not Patrick Ashby.

Sandal, of Cosset, Thring and Noble, had been prepared to countenance it.

The clients of Cosset, Thring and Noble were of two kinds only: those who made up their own minds about a problem and told their solicitors in firm tones what they wanted done, and those who had no problems.

Her mind was still swooping and swirling as she climbed the stairs to the offices of Cosset, Thring and Noble.

As far as they, Cosset, Thring and Noble, were concerned, Patrick Ashby was free to go home whenever he pleased.

If there had been the faintest doubt of his being Patrick, Cosset, Thring and Noble would have discovered it during those weeks.

Pimlico, the investigations of Cosset, Thring and Noble, the rescue by Great-uncle Charles, the ultimate facing of the facts and announcing them to the family, the family reaction.

Cosset, Thring and Noble were accounting to their young client for the years of his minority.

Meredith Thring, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of London, predicts that we shall have surgery by robot hands and electronic scalpels to meet the demands of increasingly delicate and intricate forms of surgery.

That famous head master, Edward Thring, first taught me botany when I was a baby, in the School House garden and Uppingham fields.

All we ask you to do is to answer Thring and let us get along with your work.

I refer to Veldtcornet Thring, who had arrived with me at Kroonstad that morning, but who had suddenly fallen ill.

And then, with sudden rush, the thring of bells, the thrum of wheels increased: the clerks, the bank clerks, the bookkeepers--the little proper and respectable people of all sorts--were riding home across the quiet little square at noon.