Froe

[callary ed]

thanks to everyone who wrote in regarding 'fro'; had i checked further i
could have deduced that fro was a variant of the wellknown words froe and
frow, meaning, according to the american heritage second edition college
dictionary, 'a cleaving tool having a heavy blade set at right angles to
the handle,' (a definition which would mean nothing to all but
my best beginning students). the etymology is 'unknown.'


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