different between arow vs trow

English

Alternative forms

• a-row

Etymology

a- +? row

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???o?/
• Rhymes: -??

Adverb

arow (not comparable)

1. In a row, line, or rank; successively.
   • c. 1589, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!

     My master and his man are both broke loose,

     Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor

     Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire

   • 1680, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works, Number 10 “Of Turning,” ¶ 8, p. 184,^[2]

     And in the middle of the Breadth of the Cross-Greddle is made several holes all arow to receive the Iron Pin set upright in the Treddle.

   • 1716, John Dryden (editor), “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby” in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 305,^[3]

     And now the Presses open stand

     And ye see them all arow,

     But never so more is said of these

     Than what is said below.

   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, Chapter 8,^[4]

     The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.

Anagrams

• WORA

Middle English

Alternative forms

• arwe, arowe, aruwe, arew, arewe

Etymology

From Old English earh, ?rwe, from Proto-Germanic *arhw?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?u?/, /?a?r?u?/, /?arw?/, /?a?rw?/, /?ar?u?/

Noun

arow (plural arows or arewen)

1. An arrow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
2. (figuratively) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

Descendants

• English: arrow
• Scots: arrae, arow, arowe

References

• “arwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, from Old English tr?owan, tr?ewan (“to trust”) and Old English tr?wian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *treww?n? (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *tr?w?n? (“to trust”); both from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“faithful, true”).

Akin to Scots trow, trew (“to believe, trust, confide in, prove”), Dutch trouwen (“to wed, marry”), German trauen (“to trust, marry”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish tro (“to believe, think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tru (“to believe, think”), Icelandic trúa (“to trust, believe, believe in”).

Verb

trow (third-person singular simple present trows, present participle trowing, simple past and past participle trowed)

1. (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 2 lines 527-9:

     ...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know

     Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow

     She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?
2. (archaic or dialectal) To have confidence in, or to give credence to.

Noun

trow (usually uncountable, plural trows)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith.

Etymology 2

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Noun

trow (countable and uncountable, plural trows)

1. (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.
2. (Scotland, dated) Troll.

Anagrams

• ROTW, rowt, wort

Middle English

Noun

trow

1. Alternative form of tre