Throe /(?)/

Throe

n.
  1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
    Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.
  2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Throe

v. i.
  1. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Throe

v. t.
  1. To put in agony. [R.]