Also strower. [f. STREW v. + -ER1.] One who strews.

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a. 1593.  Exam. H. Barrowe, B iiij. He said, I was a strower of errors.

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1710.  J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit. (ed. 33), 545/2. Strewer of Herbs.

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1716.  Lady G. Baillie, Househ. Bk. (S.T.S.), 48. For Apoticars man, strewer 5 waterman 1s. shoemakers 2s., 0 8 0.

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1820.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XCIII. 532. When the strowers of grain had repeated their office, the birds again burst screaming on the flood.

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