row

row is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.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.
  2. 2.To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
  3. 3.To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
  4. 4.To use the oar; as, to row well.
  5. 5.To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
  6. 6.The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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  • Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
  • Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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