row'n

Updated: January 8, 2026

Hence persons carry an ashen twig in their pocket, and according to a Yorkshire proverb: "If your whipsticks made of row'n, You may ride your nag through any town;" But, on the other hand, "Woe to the lad without a rowan-tree gall."

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants