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name
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A ghost town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Trust or faith.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, uncountable, usually
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noun
Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Alternative form of drow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Orkney, Shetland, alt-of, alternative, dated
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Used chiefly in the expression drop trow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable
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verb
To trust or believe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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verb
To have confidence in, or to give credence to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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History
Various origins: * A nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English trewe (“faithful, loyal”). * A topographic surname for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from Middle English trow (“trough”).
From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, trouen, from Old English trēowan, trīewan (“to trust”) and Old English trūwian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwāną (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *trūwāną (“to trust”); both from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“faithful, true”). Akin to Scots trow, trew (“to believe, trust, confide in, prove”), Dutch trouwen (“to wed, marry”), German trauen (“to trust, marry”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish tro (“to believe, think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tru (“to believe, think”), Icelandic trúa (“to trust, believe, believe in”).
From Shetlandic and Orcadian Scots trow, from Norn *drou, *drau (compare 18th c. Norwegian drau, modern drov, drauv), from Old Norse draugr (“malevolent revenant”); along the variation drow, intermixed with Norn troll, from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, malevolent supernatural being”), a partial synonym to draugr. L-vocalisation occurred in the early 15th century in Middle Scots, so trolly, knolls probably became *trowie, knowes around this time.
Shortened form of trousers.
