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

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