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plural froes
A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood. examples
(obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. quotations
Like to thoſe raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' feaſts prepared;
1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618