arow
adv/əˈɹoʊ/
Etymology From a- + row.
1
In a row, line, or rank; successively.
- O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself! My master and his man are both broke loose, Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor Whose beard they have singed off with brands of firec. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- , Number 10 “Of Turning,” ¶ 8, p. 184, And in the middle of the Breadth of the Cross-Greddle is made several holes all arow to receive the Iron Pin set upright in the Treddle.
2 more examples
- And now the Presses open stand And ye see them all arow, But never so more is said of these Than what is said below.1716, “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby”, in John Dryden, editor, The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 305:
- The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Cranford: