rowen

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A second crop of hay (within a growing season). archaic
  2. Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”). Scotland,alt-of,countable,dated,uncountable
  3. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
    — For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

词形变化

rowens plural roughings alternative rowet alternative rowett alternative rowings alternative rowens plural roughings alternative rowet alternative rowett alternative rowings alternative

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”).
The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.
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