rower
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of rower
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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One who rows.
“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.”
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noun
-
One who rows.
“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.”
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A rowing machine.
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
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