Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ROW
rowing, row
(noun) the act of rowing as a sport
course, row
(noun) (construction) a layer of masonry; “a course of bricks”
row
(noun) a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; “they won the championship three years in a row”
quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup
(noun) an angry dispute; “they had a quarrel”; “they had words”
row
(noun) an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; “a row of chairs”
row
(noun) a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side
row
(noun) a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); “a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds”; “rows of barbed wire protected the trenches”
row
(verb) propel with oars; “row the boat across the lake”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
row (plural rows)
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
A line of entries in a table, etc, going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
Antonym: column
Synonyms
• (line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
• (in a table): line
Etymology 2
Noun
row (plural rows)
An act or instance of rowing.
(weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
Verb
row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)
(transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
Synonym: paddle
(transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
(intransitive) To be moved by oars.
Etymology 3
Noun
row (plural rows)
A noisy argument.
Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
A continual loud noise.
Synonyms: din, racket
Verb
row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)
(intransitive) to argue noisily
Synonyms: argue, fight
Anagrams
• Wor., wor
Proper noun
Row (plural Rows)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Row is the 12703rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2430 individuals. Row is most common among White (85.43%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Wor., wor
Source: Wiktionary
Row, a. & adv. Etym: [See Rough.]
Definition: Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.
Row, n. Etym: [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
Definition: A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.
Row, n. Etym: [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. raw, r; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r a line, stroke.]
Definition: 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. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] Etym: [AS. r; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rĂĽejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. r, L. remus oar, Gr. aritra. sq. root8. Cf. Rudder.]
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.
Row, n.
Definition: The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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