threaping

Updated: May 19, 2025

You see, Miss, I'm knitting a pair o' stockings now; they're for Thomas Jackson: he's a queerish old body, an' we've had many a bout at threaping, one anent t'other; an' at times we've differed sorely. So I thought I couldn't do better nor knit him a pair o' warm stockings; an' I've felt to like him a deal better, poor old man, sin' I began. It's turned out just as Maister Weston said.

Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey

'I'll make thee repent taunting me, as thou hast done, afore folks; and threaping and threating to lay thy bastard at my door. 'Do thy worst! Thou hast brought me to shame and misery, and hast sworn thyself to the bottomless pit: what canst thou do more? 'Thou shall see.

Thomas Holcroft - The Adventures of Hugh Trevor