rowen

plural rowens · alternative roughings · alternative rowet · alternative rowett · alternative rowings

1. archaicA second crop of hay (within a growing season).

   Synonyms: aftermath, lattermath · Antonyms: foremath, beforemath

2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

   For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

   1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

plural rowens · alternative roughings · alternative rowet · alternative rowett · alternative rowings

1. ScotlandcountabledateduncountableDated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).

1. A topographic surname from Middle English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
4. A village in Caerhun community, Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7591).