thring (third-person singular simple present thrings, present participle thringing, simple past thrang, past participle thrung)
From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to press, throng, crush”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat, hew, press”). Cognate with Dutch dringen (“to push, press, thrust, crowd”), German dringen (“to permeate, penetrate, push through”), Danish trænge (“to penetrate”). More at throng.