1. to argue or dispute persistently; to insist stubbornly on something
Usage: archaic; dialectal

Examples

• The old farmer would threap with anyone who questioned his methods.
• She continued to threap that she was right despite all evidence to the contrary.
• Don’t threap with me about matters you don’t understand.
• He would threap for hours about the proper way to plant crops.
• The villagers would threap over boundary lines every spring.