threap

noun

1. (Scotland)An altercation, quarrel, argument.
2. (Scotland)An accusation or serious charge.

   “And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise.”

3. (Scotland)Stubborn insistence.
4. (Scotland)A superstition or freet.

   “Then, (since my soul disowns the impious threap, That death is only an eternal sleep;) Then with an aching heart, I long to know, How we, my Henry, in the shades below, Shall bear the sceptre and the iron rod Of the grim Tyrant of the dark abode.”

verb

1. (Scotland, transitive)To contradict.

   “I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not.”

2. (Scotland)To denounce.

   “O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer.”

3. (Scotland)To cry out; complain; contend.
4. (Scotland)To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke

   “It's not for a man with a woman to threap.”

5. (Scotland)To affirm; to express with conviction.

   “Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises”

   “Take faith with you, and the stronger it is, it will be the more agreeable present to Christ; put a firm trust and confidence in his blood and bowels, bode and threap kindness on him”

   “While the young swankies on the green Took round a merry tirle: Meg Wallet wi' her pinky een Gart Lawrie's heart-strings dirle; And fouk wad threap, that she did green For what wad atar her skirle and skreigh some day.”

6. (Scotland)To cozen or cheat.

   “Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions.”

7. (Scotland)To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).

   “He threaped me down that it was so.”

   “I eat some of it so prepared in an English Man's House in this City, and who would threap me down, that it was Sampire, and so named in his Country of Lincolnshire.”

   “Thus the Power of Truth has so great Influence upon you, as to make you decline the Debate, and to yield the Argument to me, and yet your inveterate Prejudices still prevail, and have the Mastery over you, to threap what you cannot defend, but will have others do it for you, who are no way interested;”

   “Some herds, weel learn'd upo' the beuk, / Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk;”