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a-row, adv.|əˈrəʊ|
Forms: 3 areawe, 3–5 arewe, 4 arawe, 4–6 arowe, a-row(e, a-rew(e, 5 o rowe, 6–7 arew, 6–9 a-row, arow.
[a prep.1 + row n.]
1. Of place: In a row, rank, or line.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 298 Alle þilke þat clene maidenes beo Schulle sute arewe under þat treo. c1380Sir Ferumb. 4605 An hep of frenschemen þat leye arawe. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 83 Till home they walk arowe. 1600Chapman Iliad vi. 259 Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew. 1737Pope Imit. Hor. Epist. i. vii. 77 A little House with trees a-row. 1858Longfellow Ropewalk i, That building..with its windows all a-row.
†2. Of time or order: In succession, one after another, successively. Obs.
c1230Ancr. R. 198 Her beoð nu areawe itold þe seouen heaued sunnen. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. I. 79 Prouinces and londes þe whiche I schal descriue and rekene al arewe [per ordinem]. c1420Chron. Vilod. 603 Thre nyȝtes arowe he seyȝe þe same syȝt. c1430Freemasonry 348 For to be stwardus alle o rowe, Weke after weke. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. III. 552 Christ demanded of Peter..three times a-row, Petre, amas me? 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Argt., Jehu's line likewise Shallum supplants. King-killing Treacheries Succeed a-row. |