a1300 Cursor M. 7624 Þe king smat til him wit a sper In breth he wald him *thoru ber.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16431Echon other al to-bet, Sclow, & wounded, & thorow-bare.
1884 L. Oliphant Haifa (1887) 189The crusaders used them to *thorough-bind their walls. [ granite pillars]
1900 Union Mag. Oct. 457/2Ancient columns are built into the walls of later castles, to thoroughbind the masonry.
c1000 in Cockayne Narrat. (1861) 20Het hie þa *þurhborian.
c1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16184Handes, armes, þey dide þorow bore.
1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 4They then thorough bore their Poles.
1642 H. More Song Soul ii. i. i. xxi,*Thorough-cleansing virtue.
1604 Parsons 3rdPt. Three Convers.Eng. 279They were indeuilled, superdeuilled, and *thorowdeuilled.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 31Their vast Crops of Straws, and great Numbers of Cattle, make such Returns of Dung, as enables most of them to *thorough-dress their own Grounds.
1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 184Firing..must be long continued to *thorough-dry so many together.
1817 Moore Lalla R., Fire-worsh. iv. 115How deep, how *thorough-felt the glow Of rapture.
a1225 Ancr. R. 404 Heo..*þuruh fulleð, onont hire, Godes pine o rode.
1585–6 Earl of Leicester Corr. (Camden) 427A gallant and a *thorow-fought assault.
1822 Scott Pirate iv,The small beer of the college, commonly there termed ‘*thorough-go-nimble’.
1825 Brockett N.C. Words,Thorough-go-nimble, a diarrhœa.
1617 Hieron Wks. II. 77To bring Dauid to these two specialties: first, of *thorow-humbling himselfe; secondly, of making an acknowledgement.
1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 1006A cloak of clouds, all *thorough-lin'd with thunder.
1649 Lovelace To Deare Bro.Col. F. L. v,One gallant *thorough-made Resolve Doth Starry Influence dissolve.
1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 153They get more in the *through-ripe Hop by the weight, than they loose in the colour.
1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 347Cyder pressed from pulpy, or thorough-ripe, or mellow Fruit.
1658 A. Fox Würtz'Surg. i. iv. 18If..sharper things should be used, they would thorough-run the Wound.
1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 62The *thorough-seasoned But Wherein the tears of death-prest Grapes are put.
1649 Lovelace Poems 50Thee and thy wounds I would bemoane Faire *thorough-shot Religion.
1642 H. More Song Soul i. iii. xxiv,Here fifty Sisters in a sieve do draw *Thorough-siping water: Tantalus is here.
1730 Swift Vind. Ld. Cartaret ⁋28Our *thoroughsped republic of Whigs.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 63Never upon me Had she thrown look of love so thorough-sped.
1593 Nashe Christ's T.Wks. (Grosart) IV. 216Spotting and *thorow-stayning thy deere bought Spyrit.
1805 Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xxix,The *through band turf..being first lightly laid.
1810 S. Smith Agric. Surv. Galloway vi. 88It is essential to the durability of a dyke..that the two sides be well bound together by long stones laid across, termed throughbands.
1844 Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1007It tends much to the stability of a dyke to have what is called a thorough-band stone..placed across it.
1829 Sporting Mag. XXIII. 271Our nearly *thorough-blood hunter and carriage horses.
1827 G. Darley Sylvia 32But you may catch his sullen roar More loud when opes the *thorough-door.
1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. ix. 141Three rooms..opening into each other..so that it was possible to produce a *thorough draught.
1866 Howells Venet. Life iii,The narrow streets are bitter thorough-drafts.
1868 Rep. U.S. CommissionerAgric. (1869) 438The windows are closed and matted, and no thorough-draught is allowed.
1905 Daily Chron. 22 July 8/5The drawing-room is..spared the desecrating through-draught.
1830 Tennyson Isabel ii,The intuitive decision of a bright And *thorough-edged intellect to part Error from crime.
1867 *Thorough-foot . [ see thorough-put]
1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 883/3 The *thorough-heartedness with which Barnes threw himself into this.
18.. Coues ( Cent. Dict. ),*Thorough-joint.
1829 Gen. P. ThompsonExerc. (1842) I. 112Knots, of different degrees of complexity, from a simple *thorow-put, to a complication of loops and twists . [ etc.]
1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.,Thorough-puts, or Thorough-foots, are kinks or tangles in a rope; or parts of a tackle not leading fair by reason of one of the blocks having been passed round part of the fall.
a1661 Fuller Worthies,Lond. (1662) ii. 224He built at Buntingford (a *thorow-road market..) a neat and strong Chappel.
1891 Cent. Dict. ,*Thorough-shot, same as thorough-pin.
1842 Poe Lett. (1948) I. 193,I cannot bring myself to like that man... He is too *thorough-souled a time-server.
1891 Cent. Dict. ,*Thorough-stem, same as thorough-wort.
1607 Hieron Wks. I. 459Nothing which may argue a *through-touch, or a comfortable expectation of Gods fauour.
1617 Ibid. II. 72Whether we haue receiued any such thorow-touch as is the..fruit of true repentance.
1737 Bracken FarrieryImpr. (1757) II.Pref. 11You shall hear many a Horse praised for being a *thorow-winded one.
ORIGIN: Repr. thorough adverb, adjective . Cf. through- .