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row
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English r?w, r?w, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiw?, *raigw?, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Middle Dutch r?e, Dutch rij (“row, line”), Old High German r?ga (“line”), rihan (“to string”), Middle High German rige (“line, row, ditch”), r?he (“row, line, corridor”), German Reihe (“row”), Middle Low German r?ge, r?ge, Old Norse rega (“string”), Middle Dutch r?ghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege (“sports team”).
Alternative forms
- rew (dialectal)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /????/
- (US) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /??o?/
- Homophones: rho, roe
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
row (plural rows)
- A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
- A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
- Antonym: column
Synonyms
- (line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
- (in a table): line
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English r?wan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *r?an? (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reh?- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /???/
- (US) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /?o?/
- Homophones: rho, roe
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)
- (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
- Synonym: paddle
- (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
- (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
- The boat rows easily.
Derived terms
- get in the boat and row
- rowboat (see also rowing boat)
Translations
Noun
row (plural rows)
- An act or instance of rowing.
- (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
Translations
Etymology 3
Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.
Pronunciation
- enPR: rou, IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
row (plural rows)
- A noisy argument.
- Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
- A continual loud noise.
- Synonyms: din, racket
Translations
Verb
row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)
- (intransitive) to argue noisily
- Synonyms: argue, fight
Translations
Anagrams
- Wor., wor
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rov?. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ??? (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rov?, “ditch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?w/, [row]
Noun
row m (diminutive rowk)
- grave
Declension
Further reading
- row in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- row in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Manx
Etymology
From an old perfective particle ro- + va.
Verb
row
- was, were (dependent form)
Usage notes
Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:
- Cha row aggle erbee er.
- He was not in the least afraid.
- Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
- He claimed that he was the son of the king.
- Cha row aggle erbee er.
Old English
Alternative forms
- r?
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *r?u, from Proto-Germanic *r?w?. Cognate with Old Norse ró (“rest”) and German Ruhe (“quietness, rest, repose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ro?w/
Noun
r?w f
- quiet, rest, calm
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo
- English: roo
- Scots: ro, ruve
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “r?w”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Scots
Noun
row (plural rows)
- roll
Derived terms
- row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rov?.
Noun
row m
- grave
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
r?w f (plural rowa)
- rook (bird)
- raven
Yola
Noun
row
- Alternative form of reoue
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sculler
English
Etymology
scull +? -er
Noun
sculler (plural scullers)
- One who sculls; an athlete who participates in sculling races.
- 1580, John Stow, The Chronicles of England from Brute vnto this Present Yeare of Christ, London: Ralphe Newberie, “Queene Mary,” p. 1082,[1]
- […] each man discharged their péece, and killed the sayd waterman, which forthwith falling downe dead, the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man, and the dead man in his boate […]
- 1859, Frederic Farrar, Julian Home, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1860, Chapter 9, p. 108,[2]
- The first and second guns had been fired, and the scullers in their boats, each some ten yards apart from the other, are anxiously waiting the firing of the third, which is the signal for starting.
- 1580, John Stow, The Chronicles of England from Brute vnto this Present Yeare of Christ, London: Ralphe Newberie, “Queene Mary,” p. 1082,[1]
- A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.
- 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. 33,[3]
- Alas! the Story's short: Your Father’s dead. He would needs take water in a Sculler; And to save part of the Charges, going to row, overturned the Boat upon a Buoy […]
- 1718, Daniel Defoe, The Family Instructor, London: Eman. Matthews, The Fifth Dialogue, p. 356,[4]
- The Boats being clear, the Captain’s Boat, which was Oars, and consequently had two Watermen, went before the Maid’s Boat, which was but a Sculler; and as he passed by, looking at the Wench, he thought he knew her Face, but did not call to mind who she was […]
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 54,[5]
- At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen’s boats were far more numerous. […] Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide […]
- 1927, Warwick Deeping, Kitty, New York: Knopf, 1928, Chapter 30, p. 336,[6]
- They watched that boat. It was a double sculler, with two female figures in the stern; it came slothfully up past the ferry; the sculling was not very good […]
- 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. 33,[3]
Synonyms
- (athlete): rower
- (boat): scull
Anagrams
- Cullers, cruells, cullers
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