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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /fɹəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /fɹoʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ
• 異形同音異義語: 'fro, fro

語源 1

Abbreviation of obsolete frower, from froward (“turned away”), referring to the orientation of the blade, at right angles to the handle. From late 16th century.

名詞

froe (plural froes)

1. A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.

   Synonym: throe

   • 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 4, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 88:

     Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?

派生語

• froe club

語源 2

See frow.

名詞

froe (plural froes)

1. (obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
   • 1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, [from The Muses Elizium], 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618,

     Like to thoſe raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' feaſts prepared;

参照

アナグラム

• Ofer, fore, OFer, o-fer, Freo, Fero, Fore, orfe, fore-, 'fore, ofer