thro'

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thro'

  1. (poetic) through
    Synonym: thru
    • 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:
      all times I have enjoy'd
      Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
      That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
      Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10)
      Vext the dim sea
    • 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LXII, page 112:
      And quickly thro' the spacious building fly ;

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