Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To think or suppose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To believe; trust.
- To think; suppose.
- noun 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.
- noun A boat with an open live-well for fish; a sort of fishing-smack or lighter.
- noun Same as
drow and troll.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Archaic To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.
- noun A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, uncountable
trust orfaith - verb obsolete To
trust orbelieve - verb obsolete To have
confidence in, or to givecredence to - noun dated, nautical, countable Any of several flat-bottomed
sailing boats used forfishing or for carrying bulk goods - noun Scotland, dated
troll
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I broke up Johnny Kettle's old "trow," in which he kneaded his bread, for material.
The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879
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In harmony with the ballad form the poet uses certain old words, such as "trow," "wist," and "countree."
Selections from Five English Poets Thomas Gray 1743
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Sweat a little, and trow away those bar bells, television and all other rewards for being an oaters a****.
Criminals Insist On Being Naughty SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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They were stop by cop Roger try to show them the copy of the court paper but they trow it in the gravel
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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?)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing Over Spilled Milk-a-What? 2010
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I really have to run but I am also taken by those who trow about the word “truth”.
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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
who hates it when people turn there trucks in to low rides? 2009
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They did bring them to the cop station trow my son in jail
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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
who hates it when people turn there trucks in to low rides? 2009
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There are some words I try not to say, like 'trow' for throw.
You Tawkin' to New Yawk? Lana Bortolot 2011
trivet commented on the word trow
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
minerva commented on the word trow
Yet my teasing ways, it seems, are intolerable-- Are women only to tease, I trow?
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 13, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word trow
Also Orkney and Shetland word for a troll.
July 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word trow
"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'.
September 13, 2009