rew

• IPA^(key): /ɹuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

rew (plural rews)

1. Obsolete or dialectal form of row[1]
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Teares of the Muses”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     So ended shee: and then the next in rew
     Began her mournfull plaint, as doth ensew

   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     a rew of sundry coloured stones

     The spelling has been modernized.

rew

1. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past of row

rew

1. Abbreviation of rewind (“e.g. on tape recorder button”).

• ERW, WER, erw, wer

rew (Raguileo spelling)

1. wave

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

From Old English hrēow.

rew

1. Alternative form of rewe (“rue”)

From Anglo-Norman ruwe.

rew

1. Alternative form of rue

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /reːu̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /rɛu̯/

rew m

1. Soft mutation of rhew (“frost, ice”).

rew

1. early (at a time before expected)