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rowenn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French rewayn, regain. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman rewayn and Middle French rewaing, revayn second growth of grass, aftermath (c1285 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; compare earlier Old French rewains autumn (mid 13th cent.)), variant of Anglo-Norman and Middle French regain, in the same senses (c1176 in Middle French; French regain ) < re- re- prefix + gain harvest (see gain n.2; compare gain v.2); in β. forms and probably also in α. forms showing folk-etymological association of the first element with row adj. (compare later roughings n.). Compare post-classical Latin rewaynum, reweynum, regainum, rewannum, rewannium, regwannum (frequently from 1230 in British sources).It is unclear whether earlier examples such as the following show the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:?c1382 in W. Greenwell Bp. Hatfield's Surv. (1857) 170 Item, pastura prati, post asportationem feni de Rewayn.1388–9 Accts. Abbotsbury, Dorset in Middle Eng. Dict. at Reuain xxxiii casei iemales facti de rewaime. With rowen butter n. at Compounds 2 compare post-classical Latin butirum de rewanno (1283, 1286 in British sources). With rowen cheese n. at Compounds 2 compare post-classical Latin caseus de rewanno (frequently from 1232 in British sources), Anglo-Norman fromage de regain (c1285 or earlier), and also Old French fromage de gain (c1170). With forms in final -ing compare -ing suffix1. Now chiefly English regional ( south-eastern and East Anglian) and U.S. 1. the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > aftermath α. (Harl. 221) 424 Raweyne, hey [Pynson rawen], fenum serotinum. 1710 D. Hilman Sept. 14 There is a Water-retting and a Dew-retting, which last is done on a good Rawing, or after Math of a Meadow Water. 1866 23 June 827/2 The ‘rawing’ of our East Anglian farmers. 1895 W. Rye Rawn, a second growth of meadow grass. 1638 F. Quarles xiv. 55 By the low-shorne Rowins doth appeare The fast-declining yeare. 1639 tr. J. A. Comenius (new ed.) xxxv. §419 The lateward crop (eddish, rowings) shoots out afresh of grass springing up the second time. a1644 F. Quarles (1649) i. i. 7 When we had taken the first crop of his exuberous bags, you might have then made bold to eate the Rowens. 1805 R. W. Dickson II. 1030 In order to their being fattened out on the rouens. a1825 R. Forby (1830) Rawings, after grass. 1850 E. B. Browning xxxix And across it from the rowans A brown partridge whirring near us, till we felt the air it bore. 1876 G. L. Gower (at cited word) To put the cattle into the rowens is to turn them out into the fields lately mown. 1920 A. H. Savory vii. 85 If the weather is damp, straw, chaff, and rowens get stale, mouldy, and unpalatable to the stock. 1940 15 229/2 Rowens, second crop of hay. 1984 J. Thirsk V. i. vii. 235 The cattle, of course, still ran over the rowens and the etch. the world > people > person > woman > [noun] the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) 1575 G. Turberville 181 If any man haue a Niasse or Ramage Goshawke, whereof he woulde see the proofe, let him man hir, and make hir to the fist: then let him enter hir first to yong Partridges, vntill it be Nouember. In which tyme the fieldes are rydde cleane, and become emptie, and the trees bare of leaues: then may you enter hir to the olde Rewen. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 219 As for the partridges,..the old rowens full subtilly seeme to wait the comming of the said hunters [etc.]. 1603 xxxiii. sig. B3 The deuill cum lick that beird auld rowan Now sie the trottibus and trowane, Sa busilie as sho is wowane. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese 1673 215 When your Rowens come in,..do not lavish away your Milk-butter or Cheese. 1707 J. Mortimer 171 Your Cows..give Milk into your Rowens, till Snow, or a hard Frost comes and they will need no Fodder. Compounds1523 (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For the rowen grass of the appull garden. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. xviii. xxviii. 596 The meddow must presently be watered againe, to the end there may be a second math of rowen hey in Autumne. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. xviii. xxviii. 596 The rowen grasse afterwards commeth up..thicke and high for pasture and forrage. 1765 4 275 I shut that up for a rowen (aftermass) crop of hay. 1801 W. Huntington 91 This I feared would fall heavy upon me, as my rowen hay keeps my cows. 1882 R. Jefferies III. xvii. 268 Grey rowen grass at the verge of the ditch showed that frost had wandered thither. 1901 2 May 1913/1 He's busy's ever was with that rowen crop down to far meadow, thinkin' its likely to set in an' rain. 2004 K. Barnes 28 I think of how, at night, the deer lie down in the big field, of their beds in the rowen hay. C2. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter 1725 D. Defoe I. iii. 41 You bargain for the right rowing butter, which is the butter that is made when the cows are turn'd into the grounds where the grass has been mow'd. 1749 14–16 Mar. 2/2 A Firkin of the best Rowen Butter. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 50 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler (1985) 108 Take chese ruayn grated and lay it in disshes with powdour douce. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 174 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler (1985) 137 Take ȝolkes of ayren rawe & chese ruayn & medle it & þe ȝolkes togyder. 1542 T. Elyot Caseus, cheese. Caseus musteus, Rowen cheese. 1578 T. Cooper (new ed.) at Musteus Caseus Musteus. Pli. Greene cheese, soft and rowen cheese. the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 570 The old rowen partridges [Fr. les perdrix] teach their yoong ones how to runne awaie from before the fowler. the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) 1686 R. Blome ii. 37/1 There are several names or distinctions of Partridges; the first, when newly hatched are called White-heads, the second Names are Chick-tayls, the third Stubtayls, the fourth Ruintayles, and then they are full summed and hard set. 1626 N. Breton sig. B 3 Haruest... Bucks now are in season, and Partridges are Rowen-taild, & a good Retriuer is a Spaniell worth the keeping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1425 |
