strow

[ stroh ]

/ stroʊ /

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verb, strowed, strown or strowed, strow·ing.Archaic.

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Origin of strow

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

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How to use strow in a sentence

Let a man keep the law—any law,—and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
Essays|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only where it had been there was a square patch of floor which was not covered with the sedges I had noted as so lavishly strown.
A King's Comrade|Charles Whistler
The hard soil of the desert, for more than quarter of a mile square, was strown with their dead bodies.
Buckskin Mose|Buckskin Mose
But, Leofric, the high festival is strown by the servant of God upon the heart of man.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems|Walter Savage Landor

Altars must be strown with broken minds, and incense rise amid abject aspirations.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems|Walter Savage Landor

British Dictionary definitions for strow

strow

/ (strəʊ) /

verb strows, strowing, strowed, strown or strowed

an archaic variant of strew

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