Word Finder - rowed

definition

To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

synonyms

• paddle

definition

To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

example

to row the captain ashore in his barge

definition

To be moved by oars.

example

The boat rows easily.

definition

To argue noisily

synonyms

• argue
• fight

All the men save a small crew rowed to the beach of sugary sands.

Then four of the sailors rowed him to the shore and left him there.

After this is became very ponderous, and never again rowed so well.

For long voyages the sailing vessel replaced the medieval galley rowed by oars.

Florence goes on to describe how Edgar took the helm whilst the eight kings rowed him on the river Dee.

On the Hudson here is the course for the intercollegiate boat-races in which the American college crews (save those of Yale and Harvard, which row on the Thames at New London) have rowed annually, beginning in 1895, except in 1896, when the race was rowed at Saratoga.

The Lent Term began very promisingly, with the second schoolboy oarsman joining his colleague who had rowed in the Fairbairns ' .

Stephen Williams and Fred Scarlett, the spare men from Oxford Brookes, rowed a gutsy final to finish fourth in the coxless pairs.

All were built to be rowed, were flat-bottomed, and of shallow draft so as to be able to navigate close to the shore, and to take the ground without hurt.

When the sea is very smooth visitors may be rowed directly into the cave, but the more usual landing-place is near the Clamshell Cave, where the columns have been worn down until they form a kind of terrace running all the way to Fingal's Cave.

There is fair authority for the well-known legend that, after this meeting at Chester, he was rowed in his barge down the Dee by these potentates, such a crew as never was seen before or after, and afterwards exclaimed that those who followed him might now truly boast that they were kings of all Britain.

For it is impossible to accept the theory of one writer that they sailed or rowed round the continent - a journey requiring enormous maritime skill, which, according to the theory, they must have promptly lost.

In Sweden the few farms of the Swedes who inhabit the region are on the lake shores, and the traveller must be rowed from one to another in the typical boats of the district, pointed at bow and stern, unusually low amidships, and propelled by short sculls or paddles.

After receiving his early education in Paris, he was sent to Rugby, and thence proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second classic and chancellor's medallist, and rowed for the university in the winning boat against Oxford.