Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cleaving tool having a heavy blade set at right angles to the handle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See frow.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
- n. United States An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
Etymologies
- Earlier frower, possibly from froward, turned away (of the handle). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We had cedar shafts with clunky, glue on, dull as a froe broadheads!”
“Yu froe him a stik an sai “Fetch” an he luks at yu zif to sai “Yu fru it, yu fetch it!””
I don’t do “Get it, boy”. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Mai kidz wil jus froe owt ebreefing wen dey hab tu clene up heer wen ai goze tu mete sum fur frenz at ranebo brij.”
Ur daiz…dey is numbrd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Wee getz it awl teh thyme wehn wee froe teh frizzbeez oar teh bawlz.”
Black? or with cream?? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“I dunno — ifn I shoad mai DL pitcher, dey mite froe up nawt-sekkund wifowt laffin…”
i killd teh beast - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“March 28, 2008 at 1:10 pm wee eetz and drinkz awl dis stufz we be up awl nite froe upping.”
SLINKY CAT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Bush administration was claming that its Iraq adventure was directly responsible froe the advancement of democracy in”
“Finding this state of things inconvenient, he had proceeded to try to remove the remaining half-digit himself with a froe.”
“Say what you will regarding general utility; a froe is not a precision instrument.”
“Again, it is imperfect when the chilliness, flatness, the essential oils, the taste of earth and of cask, and above all, an excess of froe spirit, are manifestly noticed at the base of that organ.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘froe’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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TECH - tools
A very wide category. There are possibly tens of thousands tool words in each of the world's languages.
broom, brush, feather duster, floor buffer, hataki, mop, mop bucket cart, needlegun scaler, pipe cleaner, pressure washer, sandblaster, sponge and 286 more...
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Chop
dhar, chop, ax, cleaver, chopfallen, dolabriform, securiform, dolabrate, barong, machete, froe, guloc and 44 more...
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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Ulysses
omphalos, inwit, junket, ashplant, ferrule, beldam, leman, gamp, omophorion, dun, coign of vantage, moiety and 13 more...
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Plane and Simple
Old fashioned wood working tools and parts
rounder plane, nug, witchet, stail, shaving horse, dumbhead, caul, froe, glut, maul, frog, spokeshave and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for froe.
knitandpurl "At one end of the village, the old Trakt crossed a small river called the Esaulovka on an ancient ruined bridge. Its gray wooden crossbeams supported the ricketiest of planking; the planks were sawn lumber but the beams showed only the marks of a bladed tool like a froe or an adze."
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier, p 260 Feb 18, 2011
chained_bear Usage on twibil. Jan 19, 2010
skipvia A metal splitting blade with a handle attached at right angles to the blade. Used with a maul. Nov 20, 2007