froe
Pronunciation Noun

froe (plural froes)

  1. A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block.
Translations
  • Russian: колу́н
Noun

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;



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