scrow

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English

Etymology

From Middle English scrowe, from Old French escroe (“register, note; bit of parchment; piece”), from Frankish *skrōda (“piece”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, derivative of Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to shred”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scrow (plural scrows) (obsolete)

  1. scroll
    • 1556, Thomas Littleton, Littleton Tenures in Englishe:
      written in a little scrowe
  2. (in the plural) writings
  3. the sky, the heavens
  4. notice, memo
  5. list, inventory
  6. (in the plural) leather strips for making glue

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