threap

• POS: Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

threap, v. t. [AS. to reprove.].

•  To call; to name.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  Burns.  [1913 Webster]
•  To beat, or thrash.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cozen, or cheat.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

threap, v. i. 

 To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.  [1913 Webster]
"It's not for a man with a woman to threap."  [1913 Webster]

threap, n. 

 An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.  [1913 Webster]
"He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done."  [1913 Webster]