Brewer's: Trows

Dwarfs of Orkney and Shetland mythology, similar to the Scandinavian Trolls. There are land-trows and sea-trows. “Trow tak' thee” is a phrase still used by the island women when angry with their children.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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