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arow en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /əˈɹoʊ/

Etymology

From a- + row.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) In a row, line, or rank; successively.
   • , 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.
   • The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire. 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Cranford:
   • 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 c. 1594 (date written), 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, [Act V, scene i]:
   • 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. 1716, “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby”, in John Dryden, editor, The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 305:

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