strow

American  

[stroh] / stroʊ /

verb

Archaic.

strowed, strown, strowed, strowing

1. strew.

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strow British  

/ strəʊ /

verb

1. an archaic variant of strew

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Etymology

Origin of strow

1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew

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Example Sentences

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strow strowed strowing strown

O'er his fresh Marble strow the fading Rose And Lilly, for his Youth resembled those.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

Let's strow around some crumbs of bread, And then he'll live till snow is gone.

From Mother Goose The Original Volland Edition by Frederick Richardson

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Every one else within the court had to submit to the razor's fatal edge or feel the czar's more fatal displeasure, and beards fell like "autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallombrosa."

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

But loud through all the bugles rings a cadence in mine ear,  And on the winds my hopes of peace are strowed.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens

Hark! all the tribes Hosanna cry; O Savior meek, pursue thy road With palms and scattered garments strowed.

From The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Edmund S. Lorenz

The sea strond is also strowed with sundry fashioned & coloured shels, of so diuersified and pretty workmanship, as if nature were for her pastime disposed to shew her skil in trifles.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

The men strowed seats for me on deck, and touched their caps with respectful sympathy.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

And angelys senssyd hym that tyde; With besaunts riche many a fold, They strowed oure kyng on every syde.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Beyond the gathering and the strowing I shall be soon; Beyond the ebbing and the flowing.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman

As I watch the strowing of the winds, my melancholy slips away.

From The Hills of Hingham by Dallas Lore Sharp

In a moment they sprang to their feet, but only to fall again upon the burning brands which were strown over the ground.

From Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer by Oliver Optic

Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

But, Leofric, the high festival is strown by the servant of God upon the heart of man.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

His inaugural discourse, as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, thickly strown with Greek and Latin quotations, was, as the preface informs us, written during the business of the Northern Circuit.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

“There’s spread enough of the silken stuff,    And plenty of gold is strown; But better I ween in heaven sheen    With our Father God to wone.”

From The Return of the Dead and Other Ballads by George Henry Borrow

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