rew

See also: Rew and rew-

English

Noun

rew (plural rews)

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of row
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
    • Chapman
      a rew of sundry coloured stones

Verb

rew

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense of row

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Mapudungun

Noun

rew (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. wave

References
  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hrēow.

Noun

rew

  1. Alternative form of rewe (“rue”)

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman ruwe.

Noun

rew

  1. Alternative form of rue

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

rew m

  1. Soft mutation of rhew (“frost, ice”).

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
rhew rew unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zazaki

Adverb

rew

  1. early (at a time before expected)
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