·noun A kind of vessel. ·see Dhow.
II. Dow ·vt To furnish with a dower; to Endow.
to thrive, to mend, to recover ; he neither dees nor daws, he neither dies nor recovers. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
In parish of St. Michael Paternoster at Dowgate, 1526 (L. and P. H. VIII. IV. Pt. I, p. 991), 1536 (...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.