a-rowadv.
/əˈrəʊ/ 1. Of place: In a row, rank, or line.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [adverb]
a-rowa1300
a-rankc1300
alinec1400
elynec1480
a-ray1570
seriately1846
a1300 Floriz & Bl. 298 Alle þilke þat clene maidenes beo Schulle sute arewe under þat treo.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4605 An hep of frenschemen þat leye arawe.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H2v Till home they walke a rowe.
1600 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad vi. 259 Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew.
1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in Wks. II. ii. 77 A little House, with Trees a-row.
1858 H. W. Longfellow Ropewalk i That building..with its windows all a-row.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase]
a-row?c1225
by rowc1230
on (also upon) a rowc1300
by and by1330
in a rowc1330
on rowc1330
in routc1390
in successionc1449
by succession(s)?a1475
in sequencea1575
in (also by) progression1660
member by member1726
in file1744
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 147 Her beoð nu areawe itald þe seouen heaued sunnen.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 79 Prouinces and londes þe whiche I schal descriue and rekene al arewe [L. per ordinem].
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 603 Thre nyȝtes arowe he seyȝe þe same syȝt.
c1430 Freemasonry 348 For to be stwardus alle o rowe, Weke after weke.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2055/2 Christ demaunded of Peter..three tymes a rew, Petre, amas me?
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 113 Iehu's ligne likewise Shallum supplants. King-killing Treacheries Succeed a-rowe.
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