rowen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rowen
1300–50; Middle English reywayn < Old North French *rewain; cognate with French regain
Example Sentences
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During the remaining months they are fed with grains, tares, and cabbages, and a proportion of rowen, or second-cut hay.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
"Deacon Nash give it tew him fer pitchin rowen."
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy
I hain't been so tickled in ten year," said Israel, "ez I wuz wen Deacon come roun tidday a offerin a shillin lawful tew the fellers tew git in his rowen fer him.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy
A line of mowers cutting the rowen whistled ceaselessly a jingling tune; at the end of each swath they stopped, sharpened their scythes, and rhythmically hammered them.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
For oft at festes have I wel herd say, That Tregetoures, within an halle large, Have made come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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