Row
(Row) n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. raw, rw; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. rkha 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
(Row) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] [AS. rwan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG.
rüejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. ra, L. remus oar, Gr. Skr. aritra. &radic8. 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
(Row), v. i.
1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
Row
(Row), n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.