trow Meaning, Definition & Usage

Trow noun
Definitions
  1. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.
Trow intransitive verb & transitive verb
Etymology
OE. trowen, AS.treówan to trust, believe, fr. treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See True.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    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.

Webster 1913