scrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English scrowe, from Old French escroe (“register, note; bit of parchment; piece”), from Frankish *skrōda (“piece”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, derivative of Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to shred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skrəʊ/

Noun

scrow (plural scrows) (obsolete)

1. scroll
   • 1556, Thomas Littleton, Littleton Tenures in Englishe:

     written in a little scrowe

2. (in the plural) writings
3. the sky, the heavens
4. notice, memo
5. list, inventory
6. (in the plural) leather strips for making glue

References

• “scrow, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• CROWS, Worcs, crows