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

That may be rowed, or rowed upon. "That long barren fen, once rowable." B. Jonson.

Rowan tree. Rowan barry, a barry of the rowan tree.

A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. sambucifolia).…

A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.

Hubbub; uproar. [Vulgar]

Uproarious. [Vulgar]

Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.

the conduct of a rowdy.

Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

n the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

One who rows with an oar.

See Rowen.

A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale a…

see Roun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.

A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill.