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row

2  [roh]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
–verb (used with object)
2. to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
3. to convey in a boat that is rowed.
4. to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
5. to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
6. to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
7. to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race.
8. to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge.
–noun
9. an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank.
10. an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME rowen, OE rōwan; c. ON rōa; akin to L rēmus oar (see remus). Cf. rudder

Related forms:
row⋅a⋅ble, adjective
rower, noun
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row 2   (rō)   
v.   rowed, row·ing, rows

v.   intr. Nautical
To propel a boat with or as if with oars.
v.   tr.

  1. Nautical

    1. To propel (a boat) with or as if with oars.

    2. To carry in or on a boat propelled by oars.

    3. To use (a specified number of oars or people deploying them).

    4. To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.

    5. To race against by rowing.

  2. To propel or convey in a manner resembling rowing of a boat.

  3. Sports

    1. To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.

    2. To race against by rowing.

n.   Nautical

    1. The act or an instance of rowing.

    2. A shift at the oars of a boat.

  2. A trip or an excursion in a rowboat.


[Middle English rowen, from Old English rōwan; see erə- in Indo-European roots.]
row'er n.
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Word Origin & History

row  (1)
"line of people or things," O.E. ræw "a row, line," from P.Gmc. *rai(h)waz (cf. M.Du. rie, Du. rij "row;" O.H.G. rihan "to thread," riga "line;" Ger. Reihe "row, line, series;" O.N. rega "string"), possibly from PIE base *rei- "to scratch, tear, cut" (cf. Skt. rikhati "scratches," rekha "line"). Meaning "a number of houses in a line" is attested from 1450, originally chiefly Scottish and northern English. Row-house is first recorded 1936, Amer.Eng. Phrase a hard row to hoe first attested 1835, in writing of Davy Crockett.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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