‖ yuffrouw
(ˈjʊfraʊ)
Forms: 5–6 ȝong-, 6 ȝoung frow, yong frow, 7 yough Fro, 9 yuffro(u)w, yungfrau, euvrou, uvrou, -ow: see also euphroe.
[ad. early mod.Du. jongvrouw(e (cf. frow n.), now juffrouw young lady, miss, and (in shortened form) juffer young lady, beam in shipbuilding, rammer (see juffer, ufer). See also euphroe.]
1. A young lady, girl.
| 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 45 To see the fashion of these countrey yong frowes. 1673 Dryden Amboyna iv. i, And it may be then in stead of kissing, desir'd yough Fro to hold his head. 1810 W. Irving Let. to Mrs. Hoffman 26 Feb., I have..formed acquaintance with some of the good people, and several of the little Y[u]ffrouws. |
2. Naut. a. ? A dead-eye. Obs. b. (See quots. 1810, 1867.)
| 1494 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 254 Ȝong frowis and collaris, seme and rufe to the bote. 1505 Ibid. III. 86 Blokkis and brassin schiffis, paralingis, and ȝong frowes. 1810 J. Dessiou Moore's Pract. Navigator 291 Uvrou, the piece of wood by which the legs of the crow-foot are extended. 1815– [see euphroe]. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Crow⁓foot, a number of small lines spreading out from an uvrow or long block, used to spread awnings by. |