threep

Chris spends all of the book in a threep.

I had a strong mind to cast it up to her, that she should ha' sent my poor lass away without telling on it to us first; but she were in black, and looked so sad I could na' find in my heart to threep it up.

He will keep up his threep like a gamecock till he dies with it in his last crow.

After it is clear that Threep, say, is going down, the humane thing to do is to finish him off as quickly as possible.

Ruleson smoked his pipe after dinner, and kept up the threep, and the girls put out of sight the used china, and the meat and pastries left, and Margot put on her usual Sabbath attire—a light-gray silk dress, a large white collar, and a borderless cap of lace over her dark hair.