Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trow"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trow \Trow\, n.
A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing
fish. --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trow \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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