Category:Row

Row, a. & adv. Etym: [see rough.]

Defn: rough; stern; angry. [obs.] "lock he never so row." Chaucer.

Row Row, n. Etym: [abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]

Defn: a noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [colloq.] Byron.

Row Row, n. Etym: [oe. rowe, rawe, rewe, as. raw, r; probably akin to d. Rij, g. reihe; cf. Skr. r a line, stroke.]

Defn: 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 Row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] Etym: [as. R; akin to d. roeijen, mhg. rüejen, 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 Row, v. i.

1. To use the oar; as, to row well.

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

Row Row, n.

Defn: the act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.