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froe (frō)

noun

a cleaving tool with the handle set into the blade at right angles to the cutting edge

Etymology: also frow (frower): ? contr. of froward, in sense “handle turned away”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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