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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



... Rowing on, they passed several pretty islands covered thickly with trees, among which, Fanny said, she should like to have a hut ...
— Norman Vallery - How to Overcome Evil with Good • W.H.G. Kingston
... Westy and I and a new fellow in an Ohio troop were rowing around near the shore. He was an awful nice fellow—quiet like—just like me, only different. All of a sudden we noticed Skinny standing on the shore and he called out and asked us if ...
— Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... help, she had found a boat on the beach and had pushed off on to the water. It was a double-pronged boat, light as a nutshell, made of ribs of rush, covered with camel-skin, and lined with bark. In this frail craft she was afloat, and already far out in the bay not rowing, but sitting quietly, and drifting away with the ebbing tide. The wind was rising, and the line of the foreshore beyond the boat was white with breakers. Israel put off after her and rescued her. The motionless eyes began to fill when she ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine
... scarcely spoken ere Tom and his men were rowing into the sunset, the whole of our little army watching from the bank. Presently the other boat was seen coming back with ours, and five strange woodsmen stepped ashore, our men pressing around them. But Clark flew to the spot, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... you dreaming of?" said Colonel Faversham, with one of his boisterous laughs. "Picture my rowing in these clothes: ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb


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