thraw crook

An implement with a crooked head, used for twisting straw ropes, . ( Scotch.) thraw (2), subst. [A. S. thred.] A pang, a throe (q. v.). (1) Dead thraw : The death throes; the last agonies. (The expre ion, to be in the dead thraw , is also applied to any object neither dead nor alive, neither hot nor coid.) (2) Heads and thraws: Lying side by side; the feet of the one by the head of the other. IMG:content-1049.png:[blocks in formation] Zool .: Thread-like stinging proce es found in the Hydrozoa.