Category:Trow

Trow, n.

Defn: a boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing Fish. Knight.

Trow Trow, v. i. & t. Etym: [oe. trowen, as.treówan to trust, believe, fr. Treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See true.]

Defn: 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.

Note: 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.