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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Archaic To think.
  2. v. Obsolete To suppose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To believe; trust.
  2. To think; suppose.
  3. n. A channel or spout of wood for conveying water to a mill; a flume: sometimes used in the plural with the same sense: as, the mill-trows.
  4. n. A boat with an open live-well for fish; a sort of fishing-smack or lighter.
  5. n. Same as drow and troll.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete, uncountable trust or faith
  2. v. obsolete To trust or believe
  3. v. obsolete To have confidence in, or to give credence to
  4. n. dated, nautical, countable Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods
  5. n. Scotland, dated troll

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
  2. v. Archaic To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

Etymologies

  1. From Old English truwian, akin to German trauen (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English trowen, from Old English trēowian, to trust; see deru- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby "And when Sir Launcelot saw that, he turned and went thither as the head came from. And in the meanwhile he trowed that himself and Sir Ector rode till that they came to a rich man’s house where there was a wedding."
    - Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'. Sep 13, 2009

  • qroqqa Also Orkney and Shetland word for a troll. Jul 7, 2008

  • minerva Yet my teasing ways, it seems, are intolerable-- Are women only to tease, I trow?

    Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dec 13, 2007

  • trivet Archaic: to believe, think, or suppose.

    (Origin: bef. 900; ME trowen, OE tréow(i)an to believe, deriv. of tréow belief; akin to ON trūa, G trauen, Goth trauan to trust, believe) May 6, 2007

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