Noun: tow
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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For if men were fire, women were tow, and she should learn that lesson. [1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XVI A Golden Haze”, in Queen's Folly:]
Nouns inflected like tow
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English tow-, from Proto-Germanic *tawwą; for more see English tow. See: English Nouns '
tow'.
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