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fro
CIDE DICTIONARY
fro, adv. [OE. fra, fro, adv. & prep., Icel. fr, akin to Dan. fra from, E. from. See From.].
From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To. Milton. [1913 Webster]
fro, prep.
From. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fro, adv. back (now only in to and fro: see TO).
Etymology
ME f. ON fr{aacute} FROM
THESAURUS
fro
a rebours, a reculons, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, ass-backwards, astern, away, back, backward, backwards, counterclockwise, hindward, hindwards, in reverse, rearward, rearwards, retrad, widdershins
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