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# thro

preposition

«thro» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

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

### Then and now

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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/#x3)

### Note

Today: through.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thro» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thro/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thro» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/thro.html) on Mova free.