blowe

See blow (etymology 1)

blowe (third-person singular simple present blowes, present participle blowing, simple past blewe, past participle blowne)

1. Obsolete spelling of blow

See blow (etymology 3)

blowe

1. (obsolete) past participle of blow (to flower, blossom)

• Below, Lebow, below, bowel, bowle, elbow

From Old English blāwan.

blowe

1. Alternative form of blowen (“to blow”)

From Old English blōwan.

blowe

1. Alternative form of blowen (“to blossom”)

From Middle English blow.

• IPA^(key): /bluː/

blowe

1. stroke
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 84:

     Chote well aar aim was t'yie ouz n'eer a blowe.

     I saw (well) their intent was to give us ne'er a stroke.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:

     Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,

     Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,

• barnaugh-blowe

• blay (“to blow”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84