trow
to believe, think, or suppose.
Origin of trow
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How to use trow in a sentence
This also is one of the articles of belief in Shetland, with regard to the trows, as the trolls are there called.
Fians, Fairies and Picts | David MacRitchieFor, in Shetland, the Finns are even yet "reckoned among the Trows."
The Testimony of Tradition | David MacRitchieWe have, moreover, seen that the same "conical, green mounds" are remembered in Orkney and Shetland as the homes of the "trows."
The Testimony of Tradition | David MacRitchieA Shetlander lying awake in bed before day one morning, heard the noise of a party of Trows passing by his door.
The Fairy Mythology | Thomas KeightleyThe Trows are of a diminutive stature, and they are usually dressed in gay green garments.
The Fairy Mythology | Thomas Keightley
British Dictionary definitions for trow
/ (trəʊ) /
archaic to think, believe, or trust
Origin of trow
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