threap or threep /thrēp/ (Scot and N Eng dialect)

1. To rebuke
2. To maintain persistently
3. To insist on
4. To urge, to press eagerly
5. To contradict

To dispute

1. Stubborn insistence or assertion
2. Accusation
3. A traditional belief

• short sales
• short score
• short scores
• short sea
• short selling
• short sharp shock
• short sharp shocks
• short sheep
• short shrift
• short-sighted
• short-sightedly
• short-sightedness
• short sixes
• short-spoken
• short-staffed
• short-staple
• shortstop
• shortstops
• short stories
• short story
• short subject
• short subjects
• shortsword
• shortswords
• short-tempered