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rowens

rowens is the plural of rowen.

Meaning of rowen

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

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Questions about rowens

What is rowens the plural of?
Rowens is the plural of rowen.

Words near rowens in the dictionary

  1. rowelling
  2. rowels
  3. rowen
  4. Rowena
  5. Rowenna
  6. rowens
  7. rower
  8. rower's high
  9. rowers
  10. rowest
  11. roweth

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