Definition of "trow"

trow¹

/tɹoʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present trows, present participle trowing, simple past and past participle trowed
1. (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe.
  Quotations
  ...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know / Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow / She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?
  1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 2 lines 527-9
  "And as their valour, so you trow, defiedon aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,so many changing skies their manhood tried,such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
  1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23
  But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.
  1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 6
2. (archaic or dialectal) To have confidence in, or to give credence to.
noun
usually uncountable, plural trows
1. (archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith.

/tɹoʊ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural trows
1. (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.

/tɹoʊ/

/tɹoʊ/

noun
uncountable
1. (dated, nautical, uncountable) Used chiefly in the expression drop trow.