Deeper Dive: row

Row (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Rowing.] [AS. r?wan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rüejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. r?a, L. remus oar, Gr. ?, Skr. aritra. √8. 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 (?), a. & adv. [See Rough.] Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.
Row , n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Row , n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.] A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.
Row (?), n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. rāw, r?w; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r?khā a line, stroke.] 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. i.
1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.


-- Webster's unabridged 1913







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