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scrow

  • /skrəʊ/

Where it comes from

From Middle English scrowe, from Old French escroe (“register, note; bit of parchment; piece”), from Frankish *skrōda (“piece”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, derivative of Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to shred”).

noun scrows

  1. obsolete scroll written in a little scrowe
  2. in plural, obsolete writings
  3. obsolete the sky, the heavens
  4. obsolete notice, memo
  5. obsolete list, inventory
  6. in plural, obsolete leather strips for making glue

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"scrow." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/scrow.

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@misc{scrow_2026,
  title = {scrow},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrow},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}