Row

Row (rou), a. & adv. [See Rough.] Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.

Row, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.] A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.

Row (r), n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. rāw, rǣw; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. rēkhā a line, stroke.] 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.

Row (rō), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] [AS. rōwan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rüejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. rōa, L. remus oar, Gr. ἐρετμόν, Skr. aritra. √8. Cf. Rudder.] 1. To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

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

Row, v. i. 1. To use the oar; as, to row well.

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

Row, n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.