ROW

a. n. v.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.

2.
n.

A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.

3.
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. 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.

4.
v.

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

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

To use the oar; as, to row well.

7.
v.

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

8.
n.

The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

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