Definitions
A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.
Word origin
Abbreviation of obsolete frower, from froward (“turned away”), referring to the orientation of the blade, at right angles to the handle. From late 16th century.
Used in a sentence
“Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?”
“1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, [from The Muses Elizium], 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618, Like to thoſe raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' feaſts prepared;”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Shingle splitter”4 letters
02“Splitting tool”4 letters
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