Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Archaic To think.
- v. Obsolete To suppose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To believe; trust.
- To think; suppose.
- 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.
- n. A boat with an open live-well for fish; a sort of fishing-smack or lighter.
- n. Same as drow and troll.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, uncountable trust or faith
- v. obsolete To trust or believe
- v. obsolete To have confidence in, or to give credence to
- n. dated, nautical, countable Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods
- n. Scotland, dated troll
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
- v. Archaic To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.
Etymologies
- From Old English truwian, akin to German trauen (Wiktionary)
- Middle English trowen, from Old English trēowian, to trust; see deru- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I broke up Johnny Kettle's old "trow," in which he kneaded his bread, for material.”
“In harmony with the ballad form the poet uses certain old words, such as "trow," "wist," and "countree.”
“Yes | No | Report from tinigunner111 wrote 27 weeks 2 days ago ya thats right arent trucks suppose to have big tires and a bed to trow your crap in”
“They were stop by cop Roger try to show them the copy of the court paper but they trow it in the gravel”
“They did bring them to the cop station trow my son in jail”
“There are some words I try not to say, like 'trow' for throw.”
“I really have to run but I am also taken by those who trow about the word “truth”.”
“Sweat a little, and trow away those bar bells, television and all other rewards for being an oaters a****.”
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“(Did she along with Britney Spear get some buzz in the past by going without u-trow and flashing her pudenda for paparazzi when getting out of acar?)”
“A couple of scrawny skater kids dropped trow and flopped their little dicks around.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trow’.
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...ghost, boggle, bloody-bones, spirit, demon, ignis fatuus, brownie, bugbear, black dog, specter, shellycoat, scarecrow and 186 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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true wood
durable steadfast words
rhododendron, philodendron, druid, dendron, dryopithecine, germander, dryad, drupe, obdurate, indurate, endure, dura matre and 70 more...
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puzzlers
words learned from crossword puzzles
ott, ogee, ulee, aida, cleek, stlo, yser, eero, sniggle, nostrum, oxlip, agist and 32 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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Good Olde English
yean, nave, ilk, daw, lode, brae, scurf, yond, quench, throng, eftsoons, fang and 26 more...
Tweets
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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