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

The song is light as their fingers, but the burden is charming:— Now hath Flora robb’d her bowers To befriend this place with flowers; Strow about! strow about!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

Here was democratic raw material which could not be permitted to run to waste.—Sympathizers were "Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa."

From The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe

Now with bright holly all the temples are strow; With Laurel green and sacred Mistletoe.

From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg

Here The coming spring would first appear, And all this place with roses strow, If busy feet would let them grow.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham

Shut in himself, the war without he hears, Safe in the tempest of their rattling spears; The cumber'd strand their wasted volleys strow; His sport, the rage and labour of the foe.

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

He stayed on de yuther side 'twell all de res' had got 'crost, den he got down offen his horse an' took a bottle of somp'in' an' strowed it all over de bridge.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

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

Some broke the surface of the earth, others strowed seeds or kernels of fruits, others removed the weeds which threatened to impede the harvest.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

Wide open stood the door, he need not climb, And she herself before the pointed time Had spread the board, with roses strowed the room, And oft looked out, and mused he did not come.

From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe

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

Ambroise Patel, upon whose grave would be strown flowers that belonged to the living!

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

He paints too the attachment which some of the ancients had to landscape scenery:— None of art's works, but prodigally strown By nature, with her negligence divine.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Samuel Felton

Oh, calm below the marble grey My father's dust was strown!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blue lotuses through all the land The glories of their blooms expand, And the resplendent earth is strown With peerless pearl and precious stone.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

Ten years have strown many a grave on the hillside and Ona would not mention it if she lost every relative she had in this town.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

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