threap

noun /θɹiːp/

1. An altercation, quarrel, argument.

2. An accusation or serious charge.

   And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise.

3. Stubborn insistence.

4. A superstition or freet.

   Then, (since my soul disowns the impious threap, That death is only an eternal sleep;) Then with an aching heart, I long to know, How we, my Henry, in the shades below, Shall bear the sceptre and the iron rod Of the grim Tyrant of the dark abode.

Where it comes from

From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below). Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry threap (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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