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ROWING
rowing, row
(noun) the act of rowing as a sport
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
rowing
present participle of row
Noun
rowing (countable and uncountable, plural rowings)
The action of the verb to row.
The action of propelling a boat with oars.
The rowing of boats as a competitive sport.
The act of having a row, or argument.
Synonyms
• sculling
Anagrams
• Ingrow, growin', ingrow
Source: Wiktionary
ROW
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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