blowe

See blow (etymology 1)

blowe (third-person singular simple present blowes, present participle blowing, simple past blewe, past participle blowne)

1. Obsolete spelling of blow

See blow (etymology 3)

blowe

1. (obsolete) past participle of blow (to flower, blossom)

• Below, Lebow, below, bowel, bowle, elbow

From Old English blāwan.

blowe

1. Alternative form of blowen (“to blow”)

From Old English blōwan.

blowe

1. Alternative form of blowen (“to blossom”)

From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāan.

blowe

1. stroke
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4:

     Chote well aar aim was t'yie ouz n'eer a blowe.

     I saw their intent was to give us ne'er a stroke.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 84