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noun
1.
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
2.
a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.
3.
a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.
4.
a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
5.
EXPANDMusic. tone row.
6.
COLLAPSECheckers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
verb (used with object)
7.
to put in a row (often followed by up).
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hard/long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront: At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw
1175–1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw
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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.
EXPANDto use (oarsmen) for rowing.
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:
before 950; Middle English rowen, Old English rōwan; cognate with Old Norse rōa; akin to Latin rēmus oar. Compare rudder
before 950; Middle English rowen, Old English rōwan; cognate with Old Norse rōa; akin to Latin rēmus oar. Compare rudder
Related forms
row·a·ble, adjective
row·er, noun
un·der·row·er, noun
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| row2 (rəʊ) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to propel (a boat) by using oars |
| 2. | (tr) to carry (people, goods, etc) in a rowing boat |
| 3. | to be propelled by means of (oars or oarsmen) |
| 4. | (intr) Compare scull to take part in the racing of rowing boats as a sport, esp in eights, in which each member of the crew pulls one oar |
| 5. | (tr) to race against in a boat propelled by oars: Oxford row Cambridge every year |
| —n | |
| 6. | an act, instance, period, or distance of rowing |
| 7. | an excursion in a rowing boat |
| [Old English rōwan; related to Middle Dutch roien, Middle High German rüejen, Old Norse rōa, Latin rēmus oar] | |
| 'rower2 | |
| —n | |
| 'rowing2 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
row
"noisy commotion," 1746, Cambridge University slang, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to rousel "drinking bout" (1602), a shortened form of carousal. Klein suggests a back-formation from rouse (n.), mistaken as a plural (cf. pea from pease).
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