Definitionen
1.NounA severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.
The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.
2.NounThe pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.
3.NounAny severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm.
4.NounA hard struggle, especially one associated with the beginning or finishing of a task.
5.VerbTo cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.
6.VerbTo feel throes; to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
7.NounSynonym of froe (“a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood”).