gow
Speech parts
1. gow - Noun
2. Gow - Proper noun
Meaning
gow (plural gows)
Alternative form of jow (“pre-metric unit of length in India”)
gow (uncountable)
(colloquial, dated) opium
Gow
A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Examples
According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students' names, maintaining that "had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension".
As you can see, standard deviation is many times the magnitude of the expected loss. citation The standard deviation for pai gow poker is the lowest out of all common casinos. citation Many, particularly slots, have extremely high standard deviations.
Fortune Pai Gow is another variation which allows players to make a side bet on a poker hand ranking of trips or better.
Gow (Cambridge 1936) p. 24 Gow also related how Housman intimidated his students, sometimes reducing them to tears.
Relation to Pai Gow The partition game of Pai Gow borrows most of its tile ranking from the pairings in Playing Heaven and Nine.
Gow (Cambridge 1936) p. 18 Housman found his true vocation in classical studies and treated his poems as secondary.