arow
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arow (not comparable)
- In a row, line, or rank; successively.
- c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!
My master and his man are both broke loose,
Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor
Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire
- 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:, Number 10 “Of Turning,” ¶ 8, p. 184,[1]
- And in the middle of the Breadth of the Cross-Greddle is made several holes all arow to receive the Iron Pin set upright in the Treddle.
- 1716, “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby”, in John Dryden, editor, The Third Part of Miscellany Poems[2], 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 305:
- And now the Presses open stand
And ye see them all arow,
But never so more is said of these
Than what is said below.
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Cranford[3]:
- The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.
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- “arow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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From Old English ārwe, earh, from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō.
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- An arrow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
- (figurative) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.
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- “arwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.