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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of hook used for twisting straw ropes, etc. Also thraw-crook, thraw-cruk.
  • noun A potters' wheel; a thrower or throwing-table.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Agric.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

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  • noun An agricultural instrument for twisting ropes out of straw.

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