Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrust; push; press.
- To press; push; force one's way.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To press, crowd, or throng.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, archaic To
thrust ; tocrowd . - verb intransitive, archaic To
push ; to force one's way.
Etymologies
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November 16th, 2009 10: 36 am ET if you a democrat thring to get re-elected ... do you really want this white house involved?? just ask John Corzine
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The quick blurb goes something like this: Ten seemingly random women are thrown together by one thring throughout the course of a day, trouble.
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April 12, 2008 at 12:20 pm hmmmmm, if de bodi comin owtta dat cyrs..cihyr…thring rapped rown ..matches dat fase fir size, could be moar ob a flubberby dan a flutterbye
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Dr James B. Thring Founder 'Ministry of Peace' - London, UK russfound. org/thring
GlobalResearch.ca 2010
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"Ef thar 's melon an 'ginger persarves settin' by yer plate, d'ye ask them two old women, in some kind of genteel s'ciety ructions sort o 'a way, ter go outer the room an' git ye somethin ', an' soon 's they've gone d'ye jump up an 'thring a shawl over that darn' parrot o 'theirn
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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