English Explanatory Dictionary

collow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make foul or dirty; begrime as with the smut of coal; blacken.
noun
  1. The black grime or soot of coal or burnt wood.

Word forms

collow collows collowing collowed kellow

Etymology

From Middle English *colwen, *colȝen (attested in colwed, colwinge), from Old English *colgian, from Proto-West Germanic *koligōn (“to make black as coal, blacken with coal”).

Related words

colly kelly
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