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Row   /roʊ/   Listen
Row

noun
1.
An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
2.
An angry dispute.  Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, run-in, words, wrangle.  "They had words"
3.
A long continuous strip (usually running horizontally).  "Rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"
4.
(construction) a layer of masonry.  Synonym: course.
5.
A linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side.
6.
A continuous chronological succession without an interruption.
7.
The act of rowing as a sport.  Synonym: rowing.
verb
(past & past part. rowed; pres. part. rowing)
1.
Propel with oars.



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"Row" Quotes from Famous Books



... address in his pocket-book, and finding himself one day in the quartier, he determined in so far as he might to clear up his doubts. He repaired to the house in the Rue St. Roch which bore the recorded number, and observed in a neighboring basement, behind a dangling row of neatly inflated gloves, the attentive physiognomy of Bellegarde's informant—a sallow person in a dressing-gown—peering into the street as if she were expecting that amiable nobleman to pass again. But it was not to her that Newman applied; he simply asked of the portress ...
— The American • Henry James
... Mayo he started a row with an Indian dog. The buck who owned the dog took a swing at Spot with an ax, missed him, and killed his own dog. Talk about magic and turning bullets aside—I, for one, consider it a blamed sight harder to turn an ax aside with ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... I'm going to kick up a row. What are the police doing? A set of blooming old women, that's what they are. But I'll stir 'em up, if I have to write to ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... was on the Inchcape float; Quoth he, "My men put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I'll plague ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... she pursued him thus. He came to the end of the field and dodged into the thicket of bushes that lined the fence row. He moved more slowly now, and she followed by sound rather than by sight. At length they came to where a brook ran at right angles to the fence row. The man stopped and crawled under the barbed-wire fence and came out on the turnpike ...
— In the Clutch of the War-God • Milo Hastings


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