Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
rowen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Prov. Eng. Rowen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect
rowen ; a second crop ofhay
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Examples
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The frequent roughings he experienced served to steady him, and also taught him to distinguish the tentative line between good-natured banter and the veiled insult.
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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The sight of you warms me more than a fire would do '; adding,' I declare you look quite bewitching, after all the roughings and tumblings about out of doors. '
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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I'm surprised the refs didn't just hand out roughings on this one.
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Several of the beatings and roughings up were caught on video, several thugs were arrested, and it’s all over the news.
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_roughings_: this last form gives the etymology, for _rowe_, as may be seen in Halliwell, is an old form for _rough_.
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