strow

[ stroh ]

/ stroʊ /

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

strew.

Words nearby strow

stropper, stroppy, strother, stroud, strove, strow, stroy, strozzi, struck, struck jury, struck measure

Origin of strow

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

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Examples from the Web for strown

Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge|Henry George Davis
Ambroise Patel, upon whose grave would be strown flowers that belonged to the living!
Melomaniacs|James Huneker
Let a man keep the law—any law,—and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
Essays|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man keep the law,—any law,—and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
Essays, First Series|Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

British Dictionary definitions for strown

strow

/ (strəʊ) /

verb strows, strowing, strowed, strown or strowed

an archaic variant of strew

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