1. A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may
be cropped by cattle.
Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes.
Mortimer.
2. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
ROWER
Row"er, n.
Defn: One who rows with an oar.
ROWETT
Row"ett, n.
Defn: See Rowen.
ROWLOCK Row"lock ( colloq. , n. Etym: [For oarlock; AS. *rloc, where the second part is skin to G. loch a hole, E. lock a fastening. See Oar, and Lock.] (Naut.)
Defn: A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
ROWN
Rown, v. i. & t.
Defn: see Roun. [Obs.] Chaucer.