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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trow \Trow\, noun A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. --Knight.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trow \Trow\, verb (used without an object) & t. [OE. trowen, AS. tre['o]wan to trust, believe, fr. tre['o]w trust, tre['o]we true, faithful. See {True}.] To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic]
So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. --Chaucer.
A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. --Chaucer.
It never yet was worn, I trow. --Tennyson.
Note: I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise.
What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore? --Shak.
What is the matter, trow? --Shak.
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