"thring" meaning in English

See thring in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: thrings [present, singular, third-person], thringing [participle, present], thrang [past], thrung [past], thringed [past], thrung [participle, past], thringed [participle, past]
Etymology: From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to press, throng, crush”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat, hew, press”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|thringen}} Middle English thringen, {{inh|en|ang|þringan||to press, squeeze, crowd}} Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*þringwan}} Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þrinhwaną||to press, throng, crush}} Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to press, throng, crush”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*trenkʷ-||to beat, hew, press}} Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat, hew, press”) Head templates: {{en-verb|thrings|thringing|thrang|thrung|past2=thrung|past3=thringed|past_ptc2=thringed}} thring (third-person singular simple present thrings, present participle thringing, simple past thrang or thrung or thringed, past participle thrung or thringed)
  1. (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To thrust; crowd; press; squeeze. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, transitive Synonyms (crowd): mass Synonyms (squeeze): compress
    Sense id: en-thring-en-verb-H7ZYE2NO Categories (other): Northern England English, Scottish English Disambiguation of 'crowd': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'squeeze': 100 0
  2. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To push; to force one's way. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
    Sense id: en-thring-en-verb-4iFv5ch1 Categories (other): Northern England English, Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: throng, assemble, condense, compress, dring [dialectal] Related terms: thrang, throng

Inflected forms

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