Trow (?), n.

A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.

Knight.

 

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Trow (?), v. i. & t. [OE. trowen, AS.treowan to trust, believe, fr. treow trust, treowe true, faithful. See True.]

To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

[Archaic]

So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. Chaucer.

A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. Chaucer.

It never yet was worn, I trow. Tennyson.

I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise.

What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore? Shak.

What is the matter, trow? Shak.

 

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