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Froe vs Roe - What's the difference?

froe | roe |

As nouns the difference between froe and roe

is that froe is a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block while roe is the eggs of fish.

As a proper noun Roe is

{{surname|from=nicknames}}, from a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.

froe

English

Alternative forms

* frow

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block
    • Derived terms
    * froe club

    Etymology 2

    See frow.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
  • * Drayton
    • raging frantic froes

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    roe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia roe)
  • The eggs of fish.
  • The sperm of certain fish.
  • The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
    • Quotations
    * 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)
    Synonyms
    * (sperm) milt
    Derived terms
    * hard roe * soft roe * white roe

    See also

    * caviar * egg

    References

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ro, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun) (Roe Deer)
  • A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
  • A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
    • Synonyms
    * roe deer, chevreuil
    Derived terms
    * roebuck

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