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Etymology 1
From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan.
Pronunciation
Verb
drowe (simple past drowe, past participle ee-drowe)
- to throw
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēow, from Proto-West Germanic *þrē.
Pronunciation
Verb
drowe
- simple past of drowe
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Ich drowe ham.- I threw him.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36