glew
Americannoun
Grammar
Because the irregular past tenses of blow and grow are blew and grew, it might seem logical to assume that the verb glow would follow the same pattern. However, the past tense of glow is regular, and is spelled glowed, not glew.
Etymology
Origin of glew
First recorded in 1400–50 (noun)
Example Sentences
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Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and other neccessaries belonging to the saide loft xiiijl. xiijs. ixd.
From Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 by Various
Cos, if you never did, you can't apreshiate how deliteful the consentrated 'xtract of half a dozen glew factorys would be, in comparyson.
From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
There ys no solas under hevene Of alle that a man may nevene That shulde a man so moche glew As a gode womman that loveth true.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Of the wild hyacinth he writes: “The boyes in Northūberland scrape the roote of the herbe and glew theyr arrowes and bokes wyth that slyme that they scrape of.”
From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
She now began to glew herself to his favour with the grossest adulation.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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