rowen

Meanings

1. A second crop of hay (within a growing season).
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

1. Dated 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).

Etymology

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/.