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allow verb To suppose. [DARE labels this usage as "chiefly South, Midland"]

1862 Zimmerman CW Letters (Sept 4) some of J W Banners things was in the Box we allowed you would know them apart. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile Creek TN) I looked up a tree. I allowed [the bear] might have had some cubs there and whooped them up a tree. 1967 Fetterman Stinking Creek 133 I allowed my dogs’d already jumped at least a rabbit by now. 1997 Montgomery Coll I ’lowed Susy would fly all over a daisy field and settle on a cow pile [in hunting a husband] (Brown).