TROWED

Verb

trowed

simple past tense and past participle of trow

Anagrams

• Tedrow, rowted, wedtro

Source: Wiktionary


TROW

Trow, n.

Definition: A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.

Trow, v. i. & t. Etym: [OE. trowen, AS.treĆ³wan to trust, believe, fr. treĆ³w trust, treĆ³we true, faithful. See True.]

Definition: To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic] So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. Chaucer. A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. Chaucer. It never yet was worn, I trow. Tennyson.

Note: I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise. What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore Shak. What is the matter, trow Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; ā€œAs a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguousā€- Mario Vargas Llosa


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