Threap /(thrēp)/

imp. & p. p. Threaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Threaping

1. To call; to name. [Obs.]
2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
3. To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.]
4. To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.]

1. To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

   It's not for a man with a woman to threap.

1. An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

   He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done.