strow

English

Verb

strow (third-person singular simple present strows, present participle strowing, simple past strowed, past participle strown)

1. Obsolete form of strew.
   • 1845, William Wilberforce, Poems (page 129)

     How still the air within this forest brown; / So still, you hear the snow fall through the trees, / And on the yellow leaves beneath them strown; / And thick it falls, unwavered by the breeze, […]

   • 1866, Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature, Part IV: Conclusion, The Cornhill Magazine, Volume XIV, page 111,

     It was a manner much more turbid and strown with blemishes than the manner of Pindar, Dante, or Milton; […] .

Anagrams

• Trows, rowts, trows, worst, worts

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strow/

Verb

strow

1. second-person singular imperative of strowiś