What does trow mean?
Trow means (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe..
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/tɹoʊ/ · verb
(archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe..
...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?
Finding me stick to her still like wax, for my mettle was up as hers was, away she flew with me swifter than ever I went before, or since, I trow.
"And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.
The Trows are of a diminutive stature, and they are usually dressed in gay green garments.
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Trow means (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe..
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...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?
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