rowen

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In the meadows the peasants were piling their carts with heavy rowen, the girls lifting the hay on the forks, and the men giving themselves the lighter labor of ordering the load.

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  1. noun New England A second crop, as of hay, in a season.

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  1. Middle English rowein, from Anglo-Norman rewain, variant of Old French regain : re-, re- + gaaignier, to till; see gain1.

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  1. A dial. form, also rouen, rowings (and rowet, rowett), of roughings: see roughings.
 

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/ˈraʊɛn/
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