rowen

• roughings, rowet, rowett, rowings

Middle English rowein, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”).

rowen (plural rowens)

1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:

     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.

rowen (countable and uncountable, plural rowens)

1. (Scotland) dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).

• owner, rewon, worne

From Old English rōwan, from Proto-Germanic *rōaną.

• rowe, rouwen, rowyn, reowen

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔu̯ən/

rowen

1. To row; paddle (use oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
2. To move by rowing or paddling (to move by using oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
3. To move in the water; to paddle or splash.
4. To go, travel, journey or voyage

• rother

• English: row
• Scots: row

• “rouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

From rewe (“row”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• rowe, rewen, rewe

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔu̯ən/, /ˈrɛu̯ən/

rowen

1. To shine; to emit light.

• “reuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

rowen

1. Alternative form of rewen (“to regret”)