Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
"grow"

(2) transitive of non-living things "Whan dauid had regned vii. yere in Ebron he grewe [French creut] and amended moche this cyte [Jerusalem]" Caxton Godfrey clxix.250.


This was the citation I found in the OED dated 1481 that I mentioned earlier, but they didn't have the other one.