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Froe   Listen
noun
Froe  n.  An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. (U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Froe" Quotes from Famous Books



... Doris. The past was past; the future theirs for the making. So he went once more up to Toba Inlet, when late April brought spring showers and blossoming shrubs and soft sunny days to all the coast region. He carried with him certain tools for a purpose, axes, cross-cut saws, iron wedges, a froe to flake off uniform slabs of cedar. He sat on the steamer's deck and thought to himself that he was in vastly different case to the last time he had watched those same shores slide by in the same direction. Then he had been in full retreat, withdrawing from a world which for him held ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... little lowly hermitage it was, Down by a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people that did pass In traveill to and froe; a little wyde There was an holy Chappell edifyde, Wherein the hermite dewly wont to say His holy things, each morne and eventyde; Hereby a chrystall streame did gently play, Which from a sacred fountaine ...
— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield



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