1. Noun
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
2. Noun
A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
3. Verb
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
4. Verb
To put in agony.
5. Noun
severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth"
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