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noun

Row n. A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. (Colloq.)

Row n. 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." "The bright seraphim in burning row."

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 n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

verb

Row v. t. (past & past part. rowed; pres. part. rowing)

To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

Row v. i.

To use the oar; as, to row well.

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

adjective

Row adj., adv. Rough; stern; angry. (Obs.) "Lock he never so row."

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Etymology of 'Row'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Row" Quotes from Famous Books

... the causes immediately of one and the same thing. This is evident in every class of causes: for there is one proximate form of one thing, and there is one proximate mover, although there may be several remote movers. Nor can it be objected that several individuals may row a boat, since no one of them is a perfect mover, because no one man's strength is sufficient for moving the boat; while all together are as one mover, in so far as their united strengths all combine ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... carelessly, resting her hand over one hip thrown out, her figure drooping into an ungainly pose. She gazed at the surgeon steadily, as if puzzled at his intense preoccupation over the common case of a man "shot in a row." Her eyes travelled over the surgeon's neat-fitting evening dress, which was so bizarre here in the dingy receiving room, redolent of bloody tasks. Evidently he had been out to some dinner or party, and when the injured man was brought in had merely ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... had fallen a ready victim to the machine-gun bullets which had been poured into it. At first the press had damned Jim Carpenter for opening the road for these horrors, but once their harmlessness had been clearly established, the row had died down and the appearance of an amoeba did not merit over a squib on the inside pages of ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... men were still seated in a row around Iron Horn while the horses, too tired to eat, hung their heads. The old chief dismissed his war-party saying: "To-morrow we will make the mystery—we will find out whether the Good Gods will go with us to war or let ...

— The Way of an Indian • Frederic Remington

... Lawson proposed that they go up the Neuse River, where there were plenty of wild grapes. They were assured "that no savages lived on that branch of the river. But to feel safer we took two Indians to guide, which we knew well, with two negroes to row." Two days out, near the village of Coram, they were overtaken by a large number ...

— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson

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