arew

English

Etymology

See arow, row.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹəʊ/

Adverb

arew (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of arow (“in a row”).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:

     all her teeth arew

   • [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 Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “arew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Rawe, ware, Wear, -wear, Ware, -ware, wear, Awre

Kabyle

Verb

arew (intensive aorist yettarew, aorist yarew, preterite yurew, negative preterite yuriw)

1. to give birth, to bear (human children or fruit)

   Turew-d taqcict.

   She gave birth to a girl.

Middle English

Noun

arew

1. Alternative form of arow