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Webster 1828 Edition
Thro
THRO
, a contraction of through, not now used.Definition 2024
thro
thro
English
Preposition
thro
- (archaic) through
- 1851, Montagu, The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches: Psalm CVI
- He the Red Sea rebuk'd also,
That it updrying fled:
As thro a desert dry to go,
Them thro the deeps He led.
- He the Red Sea rebuk'd also,
- 1851, Montagu, The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches: Psalm CVI
Etymology 2
From Middle English thro, thra, from Old Norse þrár (“stubborn, obstinate, persevering”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawaz (“obstinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to grind, drill, turn”).
Alternative forms
Adjective
thro (comparative more thro, superlative most thro)