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noun

Row n. A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. (Colloq.)

Row n. A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. "And there were windows in three rows." "The bright seraphim in burning row."

Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills.

Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line.

Row n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

verb

Row v. t. (past & past part. rowed; pres. part. rowing)

To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

Row v. i.

To use the oar; as, to row well.

To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

adjective

Row adj., adv. Rough; stern; angry. (Obs.) "Lock he never so row."

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Etymology of 'Row'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Row" Quotes from Famous Books

... where more people could hear his answer. Accordingly they entered a hall decorated with the tapestry of Alexander, while the very ceiling was covered with cloth of gold. There was a dais whereon stood a double row of seats. Benches and steps were spread over with tapestry wrought with my lord's arms. Thither came the emperor and mounted the dais with difficulty.... Mons., the chancellor, clad in velvet over velvet cramoisy, ...

— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam

... great Indian town. Passing through cornfields laden with ripening grain, they came to a high circular palisade consisting of three rows of tree-trunks, the outer and the inner inclining toward each other and supported by an upright row between them. Along the top were "places to run along and ladders to get up, all full of stones for the defence of it." In short, it was a very complete fortification, of the kind that the Hurons and ...

— French Pathfinders in North America • William Henry Johnson

... Royal Proclamation issued against seditious writings, May 21st. This pamphlet, the proof of which was read in Paris (see P. S. of preceding chapter), was published at 1s. 6d. by H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, 7 Upper Marylebone Street (where it was written), both pub-Ushers being soon ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... we who are in the first row, let us pick up the bridegroom and carry him in triumph. Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus! Oh! Hymen! ...

— Peace • Aristophanes

... during a semi-professional tour which she made through Roumania, Servia and Greece, she was invited to play for the students of the Athens conservatory. When she stepped on the stage she saw row after row of young people armed with the printed music of what she was about to play and prepared in a cold-blooded, business-like way to open the music of the first number on the program and to follow the concert note ...

— The Pianolist - A Guide for Pianola Players • Gustav Kobb

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