threapn.
/θriːp/, U.S. /θrip/, Scottish English /θrip/ Now Scottish and northern dialect.† 3. Reproof, rebuke. (Cf. threap v. 1) Obsolete. rare.
1. The action of threaping; contradiction, contention, argument, discussion; controversy, dispute; strife, quarrel, contest.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun]
sakea1000
chestc1000
pleac1275
threapa1300
noisec1300
checkc1330
debate1340
chopping1377
controversyc1384
briguea1398
tuilyieing1444
quarrellingc1460
lite1493
frayinga1500
falling out1539
square1545
overthwarting1552
mutiny1567
squaring1579
debatement1590
swaggeringa1596
quarrel1605
simultation1605
warbling1632
barrating1635
throwing1897
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27609 O pride bicums throues o thrett, Hething, threp [v.r. þrepe], and athes grett.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13310 Wit-vten threp [Gött. ani threpe] or strijf.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 350 Enter in þenne..& haf þi wyf with þe, Þy þre sunez with-outen þrep & her þre wyuez.
1418 26 Pol. Poems xiv. 78 Stryf wiþ comons, threp, and thro, To brynge þat in amendement.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 37 We sall make threip ȝit or we ar ouirthrawin.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5246 Þai hade no strenght to withstonde þe striff of þe pepull, Þat were þro men in threpe.
1794 Har'st Rig lxi. 21 They stop at last, but still look laith The threap to yeild.
1866 T. Carlyle Let. Apr. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) II. xxviii. 308 I had privately a kind of threap that the brandy should be yours.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) We had a bit of a threap about it.
2.
a. An act of threaping; a contradictive or pertinacious assertion; a hostile charge or accusation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun]
acoupementc1300
accusinga1350
impeachment1387
accusementa1393
accusation?c1400
witingc1449
charge1477
impetition1530
threap1538
imputationa1586
deposition1587
impeach1591
insimulation1592
accusal1594
arraignment1595
taxation1605
arguing1611
tax1613
impositiona1616
tainture1621
incusation1623
touchinga1625
aggravation1626
accrimination1655
compellation1656
imputea1657
inculpation1798
finger-pointing1851
j'accuse1899
the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [noun] > act of
threap1538
1538 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 128 To desire to conquer me by shrowde wordes, to vanquishe me by sharpe threpes of scripture.
a1699 J. Fraser in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1847) II. 214 Let us..hear patiently all assertions and threaps.
1755 R. Forbes tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 5 At threeps I am na' sae perquire, Nor auld-farren as he.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 111 I nae mair sall say this threap about,..That on my side the bargain did na fa'.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xv. 221 He had taken a threap that he would have it finished.
1897 J. C. Snaith Fierceheart vi. 67 The threep was fause, an he..got a thrawn thrapple for a deed he didna dae.
b. to keep (to) one's threap.
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1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 318 Encouraging her to keep to her threap.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 323 Lady Ashton..will, as Scotchmen say, keep her threep.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun]
telingeOE
chastiment?c1225
snapinga1300
snibbinga1300
reproving?1316
undernimminga1325
correctiona1340
threapening1340
admonishingc1350
reproofa1375
scourgingc1374
correptionc1380
repreyningc1390
reprehensiona1413
undertakingc1430
rebuke?a1439
admonition1440
correptingc1449
rebut?c1450
reprehendingc1450
redargution1483
reproval1493
increpation1502
prisec1540
tasking1543
check1588
improof1590
snubbing1600
threap1636
compellation1656
reprovement1675
reprimanding1698
rowing1812
lecturing1861
carpeting1888
eldering1912
woodshedding1940
stick1956
1636 R. James Iter Lancastrense (1845) 276 I leaue thy heape Of bloodie crimes to God's revendge and threape.
Compounds
threap-ground n. = threap-land n.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > border country
threap-land1259
marchc1300
the Border1535
debatable1551
debatable land1587
threap-ground1825
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land of disputed ownership
threap-land1259
threap-ground1825
1825 E. Mackenzie Hist. View Northumberland II. 257 A long tract of land..which was formerly Debateable Land, or Threap Ground; but which, in 1552, was divided by agreement between the proper officers of both nations.
1858 M. A. Denham Folk-lore 55 Part of Wooler common is still undivided, owing to disputes respecting it. It is called Threap-ground.
threap-land n. (also threap-lands) land of disputed ownership, debatable land; spec. applied to the Debatable Lands of the Border.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > border country
threap-land1259
marchc1300
the Border1535
debatable1551
debatable land1587
threap-ground1825
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land of disputed ownership
threap-land1259
threap-ground1825
1259 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 26 Super quadam terra que dicebatur threpland inter terram de Bondyngton..et terram de Newton.
1449 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 245/1 As touching the Landez callid Batable Landez or Threpe Landez in the West Marchez.
1568 in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 15 The contraversy yerely arising by occasion of certein grounds upon the frontiers in the east marches, commonly called the threap-land, or debatable.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Threap-lands, Threap-ground,..land the ownership of which is disputed.
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threapv.
/θriːp/, U.S. /θrip/, Scottish English /θrip/ Now Scottish and northern dialect.
1. † b. to threap (a person) with kindness = to threap kindness upon at sense 4b. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To rebuke, reprove, chide, scold, blame.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > force or impose something upon
to lay on11..
join1303
taxa1375
intruse?a1500
oversetc1500
beforcec1555
impose1581
threap1582
fasten1585
intrude1592
thrust1597
enforcea1616
forcea1616
entail1670
top1682
trump1694
push1723
coerce1790
press1797
inflict1809
levy1863
octroy1865
wish1915
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxi. 165 Ðonne he to suiðe & to ðearllice ðreapian wile his hieremenn.
a1300 E.E. Psalter xciii[i]. 10 Þat vndretakes genge, noght threpe mon, Þat leres man wisedome to kun?
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 74 Let not mee falslye be threpped.
1682 T. Shadwell Lancashire-witches v. 71 Who threped and threped, and aw to becaw'd me.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Threap, or Threapen, to blame, rebuke, reprove, or chide.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) I wen't be threp by a bairn like thoo.
1879 J. C. Clough B. Bresskittle 14 (E.D.D.) Th' owd lass..threap'd me foinly.
ΚΠ
1567 Jewel Let. to Harding in Def. Apol. Church Eng. Rrr j b Yee threape her Maiestie fondely with kindenesse.
2. † b. intransitive. To fight, struggle, strive, contend. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To contend in words; to inveigh against; to argue, dispute; to quarrel, bicker, disagree; to wrangle about terms, haggle.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)]
threapc1175
disputea1225
thretec1400
varyc1450
fray1465
to fall out1470
to set (or fall) at variancec1522
quarrel1530
square1530
to break a straw1542
to be or to fall at (a) square1545
to fall at jar1552
cowl1556
tuilyie1565
jarl1580
snarl1597
to fall foul1600
to cast out1730
fisticuff1833
spat1848
cagmag1882
rag1889
to part brass-rags1898
hassle1949
blue1955
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
winc888
fightc900
flitec900
wraxlec1000
wrestlea1200
cockc1225
conteckc1290
strivec1290
struta1300
topc1305
to have, hold, make, take strifec1374
stightlea1375
debatec1386
batea1400
strugglec1412
hurlc1440
ruffle1440
warc1460
warslea1500
pingle?a1513
contend1529
repugn1529
scruggle1530
sturtc1535
tuga1550
broilc1567
threap1572
yoke1581
bustle1585
bandy1594
tilt1595
combat1597
to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597
mutiny1597
militate1598
combatizec1600
scuffle1601
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
wage1608
contesta1618
stickle1625
conflict1628
stickle1647
dispute1656
fence1665
contrast1672
scramble1696
to battle it1715
rug1832
grabble1835
buffet1839
tussle1862
pickeer1892
passage1895
tangle1928
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5744 Acc himm birrþ þræpenn aȝȝ wiþþ skill Onnȝæness alle sinness.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4352 Whan ȝe aȝens þe prechur þrepe.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6065 Aȝens mokerers wyl y þrepe.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 454 The erle of Craufurd that same tyme and he,..Begouth to threip quha than that war best peiris.
15.. Ballad, Take thy old cloak about thee 67 It's not for a man with a woman to threape Unless he first gave oer the plea.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2152 Than..priam..Þonket hom þroly, þrappit no lengur.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12235 He þroly with þrong wil þreppit agayn.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 79 Thank me not ouir airlie, for dreid that we threip.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Threap, a country word denoting to argue much or contend.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. iii. 88 They were so agreeable with each other—never fell out nor ‘threaped’.
1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton Parisians ix. iii Threep and argue as we may.
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?a1400 Morte Arth. 930 Of the nyghtgale notez the noisez was swette, They threpide wyth the throstilles, thre hundreth at ones!
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 504 Bot þenne þe weder of þe worlde wyth wynter hit þrepez [MS reads þrepeȝ].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2003 Þre dayes þroly þai þrappit with stormys.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10098 Mony thoghtes full þro þrappit in his hert.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12134 In þronge and in þraldom þrepe with þe werld.
3.
a. transitive (usually with object clause.) To persist in asserting (something contradicted or doubted); to affirm positively or pertinaciously; to maintain obstinately or aggressively.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)]
vowc1330
anferme1340
affirma1382
willa1382
threapc1386
avow1393
to make oneself strongc1425
maintain?c1430
protest1440
traverse1491
assure1509
ferma1525
verc1540
profess1542
enforce1579
justify1579
aver1582
to take on1583
asserta1604
will1614
assevera1618
positive1656
autume1661
declare1709
obtesta1722
predicate1782
asseveratea1847
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 273 Sol gold is and Luna siluer we threpe.
1509 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 299 Some other threpe that he hathe forgoten theym.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 199 Thay threip that I thring doun of the fattest.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Threpe,..to affirme positively, or to face one down with confidence; still used in the North.
1728 A. Ramsay Cameleon 26 I say he's blue; He threaps, he's green: now what say you?
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 184 Will you your breeding threep, ye mongrel loun!
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 243 He threeps the castle and lands are his ain as his mother's eldest son.
1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 50 A group o' miners..threepit doon my throat that the grave..was only about four feet deep.
b. to threap (a person) out of: to move or do (him) out of (something) by persistent assertion.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > move or do (a person) out of something
to threap (a person) out of1677
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. iii. 216 Thus are Men threaped out of their own Perswasions.
1885 J. Hartley Halifax Clock Almanack 40 (Yorks.) (E.D.D.) Shoo tried to threap me aght on it.
c. with infinitive. To insist on or persist in doing something. rare.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb]
to stand inc1175
willa1387
lie1692
threap1827
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. ii. 41 She threeps to keep on a black fause-face, and skirls if we offer to take it away.
4. to threap (something) upon (a person):† a. To impose (an assertion) upon; to lead or try to lead one to believe by persistent assertion. Obsolete.† b. To impute, attribute, ascribe (something) to a person. to threap kindness or love upon (also of): to attribute kindness, etc. to; to give (one) credit for love or goodwill, to urge to the exercise of kindness. (See also 1b) Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince someone [phrase]
to put in weeningc1275
to bear in handc1300
to threap (something) uponc1440
to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1716
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 482 When his servandis wolde eatt any gude meate, þai wolde threpe vppon hym at he was seke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 755/2 I threpe a mater upon one, I beare one in hande that he hath doone or saide a thing a mysse... This terme is..farre northren. He wolde threpe upon me that I have his penne.
1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 72 Slaundring the Ministers and threaping one and the same..slaunder vpon them.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person
reputea1425
supposea1450
threaten1555
to threap (something) upon1559
to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1583
intend1615
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person > credit a person with an attribute
to threap (something) upon1559
accredit1818
1559 W. Barker Nobility of Women (1904) 104 In dede..you threape kindenes vppon me, and surely..I can well a way wth yor prayse.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 65 It is but a vayne kyndnes, which Theophilus in this place threapeth on God.
?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament iv. sig. Q8v Thou suld threepe kindnes of him.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V v The baudie rymes he threapes vpon me.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 231 You do but threap kindnesse of the Hereticks, as you call them; for they acknowledge no such miracles to be done by your reliques.
?1635 in D. Dickson Sel. Pract. Writings (1845) (modernized text) 42 If any wilt threap love upon God, they shall not be disappointed.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) v. ccxxvii. 68 Behold how gross a Ly of Ugliness They on my face have threaped.
a1732 T. Boston Serm. Song of Sol. ii. 17 in Wks. (1849) V. 552 It will make men very peremptory for Christ, that they will not take a refusal,..to threap kindness on him, and special interest in him.
c. To thrust, obtrude, press (something) upon a person; to urge upon him acceptance of or acquiescence in.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > try to persuade
stirc1380
pressc1440
fanda1500
attempta1547
invite1548
procure1551
to threap (something) upon1571
to set upon ——1652
flog1793
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xviii. 3) If Sathan threpe any feare uppon us, it may be kept farre of from enterance.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 68 Araunah had a princely spirit..but generous David threaps upon him fifty shekels.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 324 Monkbarns had threepit on them to gang in till 't to see the wark o' the monks lang syne.
1870 ‘Ouida’ Puck III. xv. 414 Look'ee here! These arena goods to threap.
5. to threap down: to put down or silence by vehement or pertinacious assertion; also, with double object (n. and clause), to threap (a person) down (that…): to try to force a statement upon (a person) by strength of assertion or insistent reiteration.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > put down or silence by
to threap down1599
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 32 Bullingbrooke,..at his remouing..into banishment (as father Froysard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40 000, men wemen and children weeping.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 83 You may as well threap one down, that a ghost is heavier or lighter, colder or hotter,..whiter or blacker than a body.
1841 R. W. Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 340 A man will say of a clamorous talker, he did not convince me, but he threaped me down.
a1876 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire (1877) (at cited word) He thraped me down it were noine, but I knowed it were a dozen.
Derivatives
ˈthreaping n. and adj.
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the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [noun]
threapingc897
insisting1598
insistence1611
immoration1640
insistency1859
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxi. 167 gif him mon to ungemetlice mid ðære ðreapunga oferfylgð.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 183 For þeft, & for þrepyng, vnþonk may mon haue.
c1440 York Myst. xl. 105 Thei thraste hym full thraly, þan was þer no threpyng.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxviii. 368 Do way youre threpyng! Ar ye wode?
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10847 A thowsaund full þro, þrepand in wer.
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 38 Naa brawling or threaping is heard.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb i. 11 Johnny offered ‘sax poun’..after much ‘threepin’, as his ultimatum.
ˈthreaper n. one who ‘threaps’ or persistently asserts.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [noun] > one who
insister1611
threaper1871
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xxxv. 11 Thar raise amang them threepers o' ill.
1899 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 18 Feb. (E.D.D.) Ah niver knew sich a threaper as thee.
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