lowe
verb (used without object)
variant of low.
lowe
American
[loh]
/ loʊ /
verb (used without object)
British Dialect.
lowed,
lowing
Löwe
British
/ ˈløːvə /
noun
Example Sentences
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Will gied a cuddie’s roar— Hugh in a lowe, wi’ door in hand, Said he would them he-haw, When Jock like ony sheep did bae, And Pate like cock did craw.
From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Dick, Alexander
Now these two youths were they who chiefly set Scotland in a lowe at this time, when Lauderdale had so nearly trampled out the red cinders of the fire of Presbytery.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
A brooch she baar up-on hir lowe coler, As brood as is the bos of a bocler.
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
Sir," quoth the dwarffe, and louted lowe, "Behold that hend Soldain!
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Before him came a dwarffe full lowe, That waited on his knee.”
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
Katy Löwe runs one of them from Halberstadt, a town that lies at the northern foothills of Saxony-Anhalt's Harz Mountains, 120 miles west of Berlin.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Huddersfield, who got four points from their last two matches, will be without Pet Shop Boy Chris Löwe and Mathias Jørgensen while Wolves have only lost Jonny, to invoke Hawkwind.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2018
Chris Löwe and Williams then scored, too, before Ali al-Habsi saved from Hefele.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
"I hope you are not going to disappoint Mr. Löwe, sir," he commenced facetiously.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Our visitors arrived punctually, the third gentleman being, as we had supposed, Mr. Solomon Löwe.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The SCA later lowed its demand to $550m, but the owners and insurers reportedly offered to pay $150m.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
They fed us lentils cooked in onion and garlic and thin milk from the water buffalo that lowed outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Charlie’s mother fol- lowed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
The gods, moreover, made queer signs appear: cowhides began to crawl, and beef, both raw and roasted, lowed like kine upon the spits.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
The Dodgers wasted a splendid performance from starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who allowed four hits while striking out nine in six scoreless innings, lowing his earned-run average to 2.20.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2025
You can hear a gentle lowing of cows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
When Taylor emerged at the outset of “Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” via a lowing guttural growl, a wave of grins and giggles spread across the audience like a breeze through a meadow.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022
Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
Then it quit, and I could hear a cow lowing up at Russell’s barn.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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