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ROWING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of rowing as a sport
Synonyms:
row; rowing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rowing" is a kind of...):
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Meronyms (parts of "rowing"):
feather; feathering (turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rowing"):
crab (a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply)
sculling (rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell)
Derivation:
row (propel with oars)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb row
Context examples:
By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to my own miserable reflections.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such confusion, that before I came to the place where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I came to land; the string, as I conjecture, breaking by some accident, which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost at sea.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The queen, who often used to hear me talk of my sea-voyages, and took all occasions to divert me when I was melancholy, asked me whether I understood how to handle a sail or an oar, and whether a little exercise of rowing might not be convenient for my health?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
