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/fɹəʊ/ · noun
A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood..
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;
Use froe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Froe means A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood..
Common synonyms include throe.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?
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