different between shrow vs strow

English

Etymology 1

Noun

shrow (plural shrows)

1. (obsolete) A shrew.
   • 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes Contayning Twelue Seuerall Labours, London: Thomas Marshe, [p. 49b],^[1]

     What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow?

     What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.

   • 1581, Arthur Hall (translator), Ten Books of Homers Iliades, translated out of French, London: Ralph Newberie, Book 1, p. 12,^[2]

     For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe,

     Had enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act V, Scene 2,^[3]

     Hortensio. Now go thy ways; thou hast tam’d a curst shrow.

     Lucentio. ’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.

   • 1689, Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, London, Act II, Scene 2, p. 21,^[4]

     Any Man of Wit and Sense like us, Charms all Women, as one Key unlocks all Doors at Court—Nay, I’ll say a bold word for my self, Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch’d, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn’d to lye with my Wife.

Etymology 2

Verb

shrow (third-person singular simple present shrows, present participle shrowing, simple past and past participle shrowed)

1. (obsolete) To hide or cover; to shroud.

References

• shrow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Verb

strow (third-person singular simple present strows, present participle strowing, simple past strowed, past participle strown)

1. Obsolete form of strew.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1867, James R. Boyd (editor), The Paradise Lost, page 33,

     Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks / In Vallombrosa, […] .

   • 1866, Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature, Part IV: Conclusion, The Cornhill Magazine, Volume XIV, page 111,

     It was a manner much more turbid and strown with blemishes than the manner of Pindar, Dante, or Milton; […] .

Anagrams

• rowts, trows, worst, worts

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strow/

Verb

strow

1. second-person singular imperative of strowi?