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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

... they believe in it a whole lot, and they're dead right about it! They'd stand right up on their hind legs and paw the atmosphere if anybody were to tell them what they really are, but it's a fact. Same joyous slambang, same line of sharps hanging on the outskirts, same row, racket, and joy in life, same struggle; yes, and by golly! the same big hopes and big enterprises and big optimism and big energies! Wouldn't you like to be helping ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... chair, with a fine feminine hat on either side of him, but George could not find that any particular chair had been appointed to himself. Eventually he saw an empty chair in the middle of a row of men at the right-hand transverse table, and he took it. He had expected, as the sole artistic creator of the town hall whose completion the gathering celebrated, to be the object of a great deal of curiosity at the luncheon. But in this expectation he was deceived. If ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... ordinary chair at the foot, occupies the breadth of the room. On the table, opposite every chair, a small switchboard with a dial. There is no fireplace. The end wall is a silvery screen nearly as large as a pair of folding doors. The door is on your left as you face the screen; and there is a row of thick pegs, padded and covered with velvet, ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... to pass through Charleston in order that I might visit Sumter and see the effect of the artillery fire upon it. Arriving in Charleston in the evening I went to Morris Island the following morning, and from there in a row-boat to Sumter, accompanied by two young artillery captains. We were all young in those days; I was just thirty, and these young men were my juniors by some years. They had both been under my instruction as cadets at West Point when ...

— The Supplies for the Confederate Army - How they were obtained in Europe and how paid for. • Caleb Huse

... the fields well cultivated, I understand, but not lovely to the eye. It is of the coast I speak: the interior may be the garden of Eden. History broods over that part of the world like the easterly HAAR. Even on the map, its long row of Gaelic place- names bear testimony to an old and settled race. Of these little towns, posted along the shore as close as sedges, each with its bit of harbour, its old weather-beaten church or public building, its flavour of decayed prosperity and decaying ...

— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson

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