Trow (?), n.
A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
Knight.
© Webster 1913.
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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