thro'
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English[edit]
Preposition[edit]
thro'
- (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 ;