different between scow vs scrow

English

Borrowed from Dutch schouw

scow (plural scows)

A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, ch 2:
  This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.

scow (third-person singular simple present scows, present participle scowing, simple past and past participle scowed)

See escrow, scroll.

scrow (plural scrows)

(obsolete) A scroll.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Palsgrave to this entry?)
(obsolete) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

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