threap

Etymology 1
From, from the verb (see below).

Alternative etymology derives Middle English, from (attested only as 🇨🇬, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.

Noun

 * 1) An altercation, quarrel, argument.
 * 2) An accusation or serious charge.
 * 3) Stubborn insistence.
 * 4) A superstition or freet.
 * 1) A superstition or freet.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from , from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬,,. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To contradict.
 * 2) To denounce.
 * 3) To cry out; complain; contend.
 * 4) To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke
 * 5) * a. 1529,, "The Old Cloak", in (editor), , published 1765
 * It's not for a man with a woman to threap.
 * 1) To affirm; to express with conviction.
 * 2) To cozen or cheat.
 * 3) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
 * He threaped me down that it was so.
 * 1) To cozen or cheat.
 * 2) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
 * He threaped me down that it was so.
 * 1) To cozen or cheat.
 * 2) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
 * He threaped me down that it was so.
 * He threaped me down that it was so.