What is the meaning of Throe?

A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.

  1. The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.

The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.

Any severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm.

A hard struggle, especially one associated with the beginning or finishing of a task.

To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.

To feel throes; to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Synonym of froe (a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood)

Source: wiktionary.org