rew

Obsolete or dialectal form of row

Noun

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of row
    • So ended shee: and then the next in rew Began her mournfull plaint, as doth ensew - 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Teares of the Muses”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London:...
    • a rew of sundry coloured stones - [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The...

Forms

rews

Verb dialectal, form of

  1. simple past of row

Verb abbreviation, alt of

  1. Abbreviation of rewind (“e.g. on tape recorder button”).