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Rowen

//ˈɹaʊən// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

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).

Noun

1
A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2
Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”). Scotland, alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable
3
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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”). The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rown (“rowan tree”).

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