different between stubble vs rowen

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?b.?l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Noun

stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)

1. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
2. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

Synonyms

• (short hair on man’s face): five o'clock shadow
• stub
• stump

Related terms

• etiolate
• stipula

Translations

Verb

stubble (third-person singular simple present stubbles, present participle stubbling, simple past and past participle stubbled)

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English

Alternative forms

• roughings
• rowet, rowett
• rowings

Etymology

Compare rough.

Noun

rowen (plural rowens)

1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

   • For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

Translations

Anagrams

• owner, rewon, worne

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?wan, from Proto-Germanic *r?an?.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rouwen, rowyn, reowen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?u??n/

Verb

rowen

1. To row; paddle (use oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
2. To move by rowing or paddling (to move by using oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
3. To move in the water; to paddle or splash.
4. To go, travel, journey or voyage

Conjugation

Related terms

• rother

Descendants

• English: row
• Scots: row

References

• “rouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 2

From rewe (“row”) +? -en.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rewen, rewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?u??n/, /?r?u??n/

Verb

rowen

1. To shine; to emit light.

Conjugation

References

• “reuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 3

Verb

rowen

1. Alternative form of rewen (“to regret”)