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单词 arow
释义

arow

English

Alternative forms

  • a-row

Etymology

a- + row

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈɹoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Adverb

arow (not comparable)

  1. In a row, line, or rank; successively.
    • c. 1594, 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 606515358, [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
    • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, Number 10 “Of Turning,” ¶ 8, p. 184,
      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, John Dryden (editor), “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby” in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 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, Cranford, Chapter 8,
      The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.

References

  • arow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

  • WORA

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • arwe, arowe, aruwe, arew, arewe

Etymology

From Old English ārwe, earh, from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈarɔu̯/, /ˈaːrɔu̯/, /ˈarwə/, /ˈaːrwə/, /ˈarɛu̯/

Noun

arow (plural arows or arewen)

  1. An arrow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
  2. (figurative) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

Descendants

  • English: arrow
  • Scots: aerrow, arrae, arow, arowe

References

  • arwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.
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