thew

An unseen power lifted him from his bed, thew him across the room, and tossed him from one side of the room to the other.

This is, of course, no argument against the poems now-we mean it only as against the poets thew.

Alice Sheltoir, charged with being a common scold—to the thew.

When this is so, the thew or servus is like to appear as the unfreest of persons rather than as no person but a thing.

What is more, we may say that every man who was not a thew was in some definite legal sense a free man.