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trow

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7
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7
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4
Pronunciation
/tɹoʊ/
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Definition of trow

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, dialectal)To trust or believe.
    “...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?”
    “Finding me stick to her still like wax, for my mettle was up as hers was, away she flew with me swifter than ever I went before, or since, I trow.”
    “"And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"”
    “But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.”
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verb

  1. (archaic, dialectal)To trust or believe.
    “...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?”
    “Finding me stick to her still like wax, for my mettle was up as hers was, away she flew with me swifter than ever I went before, or since, I trow.”
    “"And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"”
    “But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.”
  2. (archaic, dialectal)To have confidence in, or to give credence to.

noun

  1. (archaic, dialectal, uncountable, usually)Trust or faith.
  2. (countable, dated)Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.
  3. (Orkney, Shetland, alt-of, alternative, dated)Alternative form of drow.
    “The Trows are of a diminutive stature, and they are usually dressed in gay green garments.”
  4. (dated, uncountable)Used chiefly in the expression drop trow.

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A ghost town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Etymology

From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, trouen, from Old English trēowan, trīewan (“to trust”) and Old English trūwian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwāną (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *trūwāną…

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From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, trouen, from Old English trēowan, trīewan (“to trust”) and Old English trūwian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwāną (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *trūwāną (“to trust”); both from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“faithful, true”). Akin to Scots trow, trew (“to believe, trust, confide in, prove”), Dutch trouwen (“to wed, marry”), German trauen (“to trust, marry”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish tro (“to believe, think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tru (“to believe, think”), Icelandic trúa (“to trust, believe, believe in”).

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