Usually means: Old measure of twenty-four sheaves.
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  1. thrave: Merriam-Webster
  2. thrave: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thrave: Wordnik
  4. thrave: Wiktionary
  5. Thrave: Dictionary.com
  6. Thrave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. thrave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Thrave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. thrave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. thrave: FreeDictionary.org
  11. thrave: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thrave)

verb:  (transitive, UK, dialectal) To urge; compel; importune.
noun:  (UK, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.

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