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rǽw

  • noun [ feminine ]
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rǽw, ráw, e; f.
A row, line
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  • Ðonon on ða rǽwe (

    hedge-row

    ); of ðære reáwe on
      Temese, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 275, 20.
  • Sele ðonne drincan sume on (on sume, MS.) ráwe nigon dagon

    nine days in succession,

      Lchdm. ii. 238, 10.
  • Cf. He sende hem so muche honger and luþer geres a-rewe,

      R. Glouc. 252, 2.
  • Is seid of euerich on a-rewe,

      A. R. 90, 10.
  • For þre niȝtes a-rowe he seiȝ þat same siȝt, Chron. Vilod. 68 (in Stratmann). The word also occurs in hæsel-, hege-, hlinc-, stán-, wiðig-rǽw, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. xxxv. Cf. also gerǽwud féða

    acies,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 26.
  • Standaþ on geréwe,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 424, 8.
  • Hí on gerǽwe sǽton,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 779.
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v.  ráw.
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