noun
- plural of frow: a cleaving tool with a blade set at right angles to the handle, used for splitting wood along the grain
Usage: specialized tool; woodworking
Examples
- The carpenter kept several frows in his workshop for splitting shingles.
- Traditional woodworkers used frows to cleave oak into planks.
- He demonstrated how to use frows to split logs along their natural grain.
- The museum displayed antique frows used by colonial craftsmen.
- Sharp frows made the work of splitting cedar much easier.