Defn: A little trout; a troutlet.
TROUVERE; TROUVEUR
Trou`vère", Trou`veur", n. Etym: [F. trouveur, trouvère. See
Troubadour.]
Defn: One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
TROVER Tro"ver, n. Etym: [OF. trover, truver, to find, F. trouver; probably originally, to invent or compose (melodies), fr. (assumed) LL. tropare. See Troubadour, Trope, and cf. Contrive, Reirieve, Trouveur.] (Law) (a) The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means. (b) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.
TROW
Trow, n.
Defn: A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.
TROW Trow, v. i. & t. Etym: [OE. trowen, AS.treówan to trust, believe, fr. treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See True.]
Defn: To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic]
So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. Chaucer.
A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. Chaucer.
It never yet was worn, I trow. Tennyson.
Note: I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to
questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise.
What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore Shak.
What is the matter, trow Shak.
TROWEL
Trow"el, n. Etym: [OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L.
trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. quirl a stirrer,
MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS. þwiril. Cf. Twirl.]