var. THRAVE, THREAVE, two shocks of corn. (Cf. med.L. trava in Du Cange.)
1764. Museum Rust., II. xxxiii. 107. Some shock their sheaves setting them up in traves of six sheaves of a side, and two to cap them. Ibid. If the sheaves were dry when the traves were set up.
1905. Contemp. Rev., July, 95. I learned how to build a trave (which is by interpretation a shock or stook).
