The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carrow \Car"row\, n. [Ir & Gael. carach cunning.]
A strolling gamester. [Ireland]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. A strolling gamester in Ireland.
Usage examples of "carrow".
Following the resignation of the previous Muggle Studies teacher, Alecto Carrow will take over the post while her brother, Amycus, fills the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
It’s everywhere, everyone’s talking about it, Terry Boot got beaten up by Carrow for yelling about it in the Great Hall at dinner!
The other teachers are all supposed to refer us to the Carrows if we do anything wrong.
The Carrows seemed to know I was behind a lot of it, so they started coming down on me hard, and then Michael Corner went and got caught releasing a first-year they’d chained up, and they tortured him pretty badly.
The Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found!
You’ve got to ask for exactly what you need – like, “I don’t want any Carrow supporters to be able to get in’ – and it’ll do it for you!
Everyone in this room’s been fighting and they’ve been driven in here because the Carrows were hunting them down.
The sloping-shouldered figure of Alecto Carrow was standing before him, and even as Harry raised his wand, she pressed a stubby forefinger to the skull and snake branded on her forearm.
Professor McGonagall waved her wand again, and a length of shimmering silver rope appeared out of thin air and snaked around the Carrows, binding them tightly together.
She pointed her wand at the Carrows, and a silver net fell upon their bound bodies, tied itself around them, and hoisted them into the air, where they dangled beneath the blue-and-gold ceiling like two large, ugly sea creatures.
Voldemort had stationed Alecto Carrow in the Ravenclaw common room, and there could be only one explanation.
When I'd entered college for my biology degree, Carrow had actually visited me and sat in on some of my classes.
Or perhaps it only played with me, because when Carrow laid his tanned hand against the white of the snow, there was a sound of music.
And Tarot—who had started out life as James Carrow and was still known as Jim when not wearing his flameout stage makeup—wasn't about to lend his custom Eldorado to anybody, no matter how few cases of beer were left.
And Tarotwho had started out life as James Carrow and was still known as Jim when not wearing his flameout stage makeupwasn't about to lend his custom Eldorado to anybody, no matter how few cases of beer were left.