Rowen \Row"en\, n. [Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe.]

[Called also rowet, rowett, rowings, roughings.]

1. A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. --Mortimer.

2. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)