Throe

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

(2): ( v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

(3): ( n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

(4): ( v. t.) To put in agony.

King James Dictionary

Throe, n. Extreme pain violent pang anguish agony. It is particularly applied to the anguish of travail in child-birth.

My throes came thicker, and my cries increas'd.

Throe, To agonize to struggle in extreme pain.

Throe, To put in agony.