adv. 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 sb.]

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  1.  Of place: In a row, rank or line.

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a. 1300.  Floriz & Bl., 298. Alle þilke þat clene maidenes beo Schulle sute arewe under þat treo.

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c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 4605. An hep of frenschemen þat leye arawe.

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1580.  Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 83. Till home they walk arowe.

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1600.  Chapman, Iliad, VI. 259. Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew.

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1737.  Pope, Imit. Hor. Epist., I. vii. 77. A little House with trees a-row.

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1858.  Longf., Ropewalk, i. That building … with its windows all a-row.

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  † 2.  Of time or order: In succession, one after another, successively. Obs.

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a. 1230.  Ancr. R., 198. Her beoð nu areawe itold þe seouen heaued sunnen.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden, Rolls Ser. I. 79. Prouinces and londes þe whiche I schal descriue and rekene al arewe [per ordinem].

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c. 1420.  Chron. Vilod., 603. Thre nyȝtes arowe he seyȝe þe same syȝt.

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c. 1430.  Freemasonry, 348. For to be stwardus alle o rowe, Weke after weke.

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1553–87.  Foxe, A. & M., III. 552. Christ demanded of Peter … three times a-row, Petre, amas me?

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. IV. Argt., Jehu’s line likewise Shallum supplants. King-killing Treacheries Succeed a-row.

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