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Rowing   /rˈoʊɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Row  v. t.  (past & past part. rowed; pres. part. rowing)  
1.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
2.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.


Row  v. i.  
1.
To use the oar; as, to row well.
2.
To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.





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"Rowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lighthouse spark Some sailor, rowing in the dark, Had importuned to see! It might have been the waning lamp That lit the drummer from the camp To ...
— Poems: Three Series, Complete • Emily Dickinson
... Thus they continued rowing on. Not an hour before it would have been impossible for the boat to have made any progress; now, however, by the subsidence of the gale, the undertaking, though difficult and dangerous, was possible. As they drew near, even now several struggling forms were seen ...
— The Heir of Kilfinnan - A Tale of the Shore and Ocean • W.H.G. Kingston
... try my skill against him some day," said Tom, who during the past year had taken quite a fancy to rowing. ...
— The Rover Boys at College • Edward Stratemeyer
... prodigious. The greater part of the men, unaccustomed to rowing, had little control over their boats. Collisions were frequent, and numbers of the boats were upset and their occupants drowned. The canoe which carried Malchus was making fair progress, but, to his vexation, was no longer in the front line. He was urging the paddlers to exert ...
— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty
... end of the eighteenth day of twenty-four hours. How long will it take over the remaining 18 ft.? If it slips 2 ft. at night it clearly overcomes the tendency to slip 2 ft. during the daytime, in climbing up. In rowing up a river we have the stream against us, but in coming down it is with us and helps us. If the snail can climb 3 ft. and overcome the tendency to slip 2 ft. in twelve hours' ascent, it could with the same exertion crawl 5 ft. a day on the level. Therefore, ...
— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney


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