"bethrow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1620, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleasant Nouels",
          "text": "Gioseso, hauing prouided a good Holly-wand, went into the Chamber, where his wife sate railing, and despitefully grumbling, where taking her by the haire of her head, bethrew her at his feete, beating her entreamely with the wand.",
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          "ref": "2013, Amritpal Singh, Journies of Fledging Steps, page 34",
          "text": "Were I a flower what would I do, […]\nI would be growing to be\nBe made into a garland to\nTo bethrow\ntwo people in a\nA bond of marriage or\nOr adorn,\nthe neck of someone honoured\nat a drop of a hat.",
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          "ref": "2014, Paul A. Scanlon, Adrian Roscoe, The Common Touch: Popular Literature from the Elizabethans to the Restoration",
          "text": "O master heare you, you have made a fresh hand now, I thought you would bethrow you: what will you doe now?",
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        "To throw or twist about; throw off; torture."
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To throw or twist about; throw off; torture."
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        "To throw or twist about; throw off; torture."
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To throw or twist about; throw off; torture."
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