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to-fro, a., adv., and n. poet.|ˈtuːˈfrəʊ|
[f. to and fro phr.]
A. adj. = to and fro adj. phr.
1879G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 81 To-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye. 1936R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 83 How shrill the long hosannahs of despair With which those to-fro scolopendras bear, Statesmen to conferences, troops to war. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid xi. 253 It was like the to-fro rhythm of the sea, when a wave runs forward..then rapidly draws away. 1983T. Hughes in Listener 13 Jan. 21/1 The silent to-fro hurrying of nurses, The bowed stillness of surgeons.
B. adv. = to and fro adv. phr. 1. rare.
1920Blunden Waggoner 44 A sharp snatch, swirling to-fro of the line.
C. n. = to and fro n. phr. 1. rare.
1937C. Day Lewis Starting Point 200 The rhythmic tap and to-fro of the white ball. 1960― Buried Day viii. 157 Almost from the start I seem to have been aware of a fidgetiness, and a constant to-fro made up of many individual, desultory movements. |