Throe

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To put in agony.

II. Throe ·noun A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

III. Throe ·vi To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to Agonize.

IV. Throe ·noun Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.