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

Example Sentences

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strow strowed strowing strown

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 Morris, Charles

Her mountain look, the candor of the snow, The strength of folded granite, and the calm Of choiring pines, whose swayed green branches strow A healing balm.

From The Story of Wellesley by Converse, Florence

God lay the waves and strow the storms at sea, And here at land among the people!

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

These deathful deeds as great Columbus eyed, With anxious tone he thus addrest the Guide: Why combat here these transatlantic bands, And strow their corses thro thy pathless lands?

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Then receive this equall dombe: Virgins, strow no teare or bloome, No one dig the Parian wombe; Raise her marble heart i'th' roome, And 'tis both her coarse and tombe.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

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 Marlowe, Christopher

They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

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 Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

Where Sherman's army stopped and ate and fed their horses the Negroes went and picked up the grains of corn they strowed there and parched and ate them.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

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 Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

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

From The Hills of Hingham by Sharp, Dallas Lore

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 Carman, Bliss

All that long and dreary night, Sir Roland watched beside the dead, Humbly kneeling in the rushes strown around the carven bed.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

It is overloaded with prettinesses, many of which would tell well in conversation, but being rather strown over than woven into his narrative, deform where they should adorn.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Such wild and lavish grace Had whispers in it of a coming doom; As richest flowers lie strown about the face Of her that waits the tomb.

From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Carroll, Lewis

“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 Borrow, George Henry

Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)