1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
THREAP
Threap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Threaping.]
Etym: [AS. to reprove.] [Written also threpe, and threip.]
1. To call; to name. [Obs.]
2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.
3. To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
4. To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
THREAP
Threap, v. i.
Defn: To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
It's not for a man with a woman to threap. Percy's Reliques.
THREAP
Threap, n.