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# thro

«thro» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **through** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

through

### part of speech

preposition

### meaning for a pupil

Through; from one side of something to the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/#m1)

### how it differs from today

An old short spelling of "through"; today we write through in full.

### examples

- They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so rich and fine, that they seemed to surpass one another. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/#x1)
- Their father and mother seeing them busy at their work, got from them by degrees, and then ran away from them all at once, along a by-way, thro' the winding bushes. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/#x2)
- As she was going thro' the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he durst not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/#x3)

### primary record

through

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 9 (Torah 0, tales 9, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thro» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.