Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rowen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rowen \Row"en\, n. [Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe.] [Called also
{rowet}, {rowett}, {rowings}, {roughings}.]
1. A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn,
that it may be cropped by cattle.
Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens
till snow comes. --Mortimer.
2. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov.
Eng. & Local, U.S.]
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