strow

American  

[stroh] / stroʊ /

verb

Archaic.

strowed, strown, strowed, strowing

1. strew.

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strow British  

/ strəʊ /

verb

1. an archaic variant of strew

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Etymology

Origin of strow

1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew

Example Sentences

Their widend beards this aire so broad doth strow Incurvate, and or more or lesse decline: If not, let sharper wits more subtly here divine.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

Were not the King here, he should strow the chamber like a rush.

From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Boas, Frederick S.

Let's strow around some crumbs of bread, And then he'll live till snow is gone.

From Mother Goose The Original Volland Edition by Richardson, Frederick

Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild disorder seen, With throngs promiscuous strow the level green.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

Here was democratic raw material which could not be permitted to run to waste.—Sympathizers were "Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa."

From The History of Peru by Beebe, Henry S.