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frow

  [froh]
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–noun
a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
Also, froe.

Origin:
1615–25; earlier frower, perh. n. use of froward in literal sense “turned away”
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froe also frow   (frō)   
n.  A cleaving tool having a heavy blade set at right angles to the handle.

[Earlier frower, possibly from froward, turned away (of the handle).]
frow   (frō)   
n.  Variant of froe.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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