different between stow vs strow

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sto?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??/

  Rhymes: -??

• Homophone: store (in some accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English stowe, from Old English st?w (“a place, spot, locality, site”), from Proto-Germanic *st?w? (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian st? (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”). See also -stow.

Noun

stow (plural stows)

1. (rare) A place, stead.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:stow.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English st?wian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *st?w?n?, *st?wijan? (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”), Danish stuve (“to stow”), Swedish stuva (“to stow”).

Verb

stow (third-person singular simple present stows, present participle stowing, simple past and past participle stowed) (transitive)

1. To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
2. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
   • 1922, James A. Cooper, Sheila of Big Wreck Cove:

     Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.

3. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
4. To dispose, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.

Derived terms

• bestow
• misstowed
• stowable
• stowage
• stow away
• stower
• stowing
• unstow

Translations

Anagrams

• OTWs, SWOT, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, swot, tows, twos, wost, wots

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?w? (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, place, put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?w/

Noun

st?w f (nominative plural st?wa)

1. a place

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: stowe, stow
  • Scots: stow
  • English: stow

Scots

Verb

stow

1. (transitive) To cut off; to crop.

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?