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Webster 1913 Edition


Row

Row

,
Adj.
&
adv.
[See
Rough
.]
Rough; stern; angry.
[Obs.]
“Lock he never so row.”
Chaucer.

Row

,
Noun.
[Abbrev. fr.
rouse
, n.]
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
[Colloq.]
Byron.

Row

,
Noun.
[OE.
rowe
,
rawe
,
rewe
, AS.
rāw
,
r[GREEK]w
; probably akin to D.
rij
, G.
reihe
; cf. Skr.
r[GREEK]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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rowed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Rowing
.]
[AS.
r[GREEK]wan
; akin to D.
roeijen
, MHG.
rüejen
, Dan.
roe
, Sw.
ro
, Icel.
r[GREEK]a
, L.
remus
oar, Gr. [GREEK], 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

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To use the oar;
as, to
row
well
.
2.
To be moved by oars;
as, the boat
rows
easily
.

Row

,
Noun.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

Webster 1828 Edition


Row

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 gems or pearls; a row of houses or columns.
Where the bright Seraphim in burning row.

ROW

,
Verb.
T.
[Gr. to row, an oar. If the noun is the primary word, ruder and rother, an oar, may be from the root of rod, L. radius, or from the root of rado, to rub, grate, sweep. If the verb is the primary word, the sense is to sweep, to urge, drive, impel. See Rudder.]
1.
To impel, as a boat or vessel along the surface of water by oars; as, to row a boat.
2.
To transport by rowing; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

ROW

,
Verb.
I.
To labor with the oar; as, to row well; to row with oars muffled.

Definition 2024


rów

rów

See also: row

Polish

Noun

rów m inan

  1. trench, ditch

Declension

Derived terms

  • (diminutive) rowek

Noun

rów m anim

  1. (colloquial) butt crack

Declension