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Definitions
Person who propels a boat with oars.
Word origin
From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row + -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English rōwend (“rower”).
Used in a sentence
“It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.”
“Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men’s fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.”
“Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Boat crew member”5 letters
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