rew

See also: Rew and rew-

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹuː/
Rhymes: -uː

Noun

rew (plural rews)

Obsolete or dialectal form of row
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Teares of the Muses”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:
  So ended shee: and then the next in rew
  Began her mournfull plaint, as doth ensew
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:
  a rew of sundry coloured stones

Verb

rew

(obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense of row

Phrase

rew

Abbreviation of rewind.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

ERW, WER, erw, wer

Mapudungun

Noun

rew (Raguileo spelling)

wave

References

Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hrēow.

Noun

rew

Alternative form of rewe (“rue”)

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman ruwe.

Noun

rew

Alternative form of rue

Welsh

Pronunciation

(North Wales) IPA^(key): /reːu̯/
(South Wales) IPA^(key): /rɛu̯/

Noun

rew m

Soft mutation of rhew (“frost, ice”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
rhew	rew	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zazaki

Adverb

rew

early (at a time before expected)

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