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Trow

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trow \Trow\, n.
   A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing
   fish. --Knight.

Trow \Trow\, v. i. & t. [OE. trowen, AS. tre['o]wan to trust,
   believe, fr. tre['o]w trust, tre['o]we true, faithful. See
   {True}.]
   To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic]

         So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. --Chaucer.

         A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is.
                                                  --Chaucer.

         It never yet was worn, I trow.           --Tennyson.

   Note: I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to
         questions to express contemptuous or indignant
         surprise.

               What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . .
               ashore?                            --Shak.

               What is the matter, trow?          --Shak.
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