Threap

1. n. An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
2. v. t. To call; to name.
3. v. t. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.
4. v. t. To beat, or thrash.
5. v. t. To cozen, or cheat.
6. v. i. To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.