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rowen

/ˈɹaʊən/

rowen noun: a second crop of hay (within a growing season). Also the dated form of roving.

Noun

rowen (plural rowens)

  1. (archaic) A second crop of hay (within a growing season).
    Antonyms:
    foremath, beforemath
  2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
    • For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Rowen

Rowen

  1. A topographic surname from Middle English.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
  4. A village in Caerhun community, Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7591).

Also used as

rowen is also the dated form of roving.

Synonyms of rowen

Antonyms

Forms of rowen

pluralrowens
alternative formroughings
alternative formrowet
alternative formrowett
alternative formrowings

Origin of rowen

From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”). The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.

From Middle English rown (“rowan tree”).

Questions about rowen

What does rowen mean?
Rowen means a second crop of hay (within a growing season).
What part of speech is rowen?
Rowen can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce rowen?
Rowen is pronounced /ˈɹaʊən/.
What is the plural of rowen?
The plural of rowen is rowens.

Words near rowen in the dictionary

  1. rowell
  2. Rowella
  3. rowelled
  4. rowelling
  5. rowels
  6. rowen
  7. Rowena
  8. Rowenna
  9. rowens
  10. rower
  11. rower's high

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