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Meaning of TROW

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \Trow\, n.
    A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing
    fish. --Knight.
    
  2. \Trow\, v. i. & t. [OE. trowen, AS. tre['o]wan to trust,
    believe, fr. tre['o]w trust, tre['o]we true, faithful. See
    {True}.]
    To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic]
          So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. --Chaucer.
          A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is.
                                                   --Chaucer.
          It never yet was worn, I trow.           --Tennyson.
    Note: I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to
          questions to express contemptuous or indignant
          surprise.
                What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . .
                ashore?                            --Shak.
                What is the matter, trow?          --Shak.
    
 
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