Definitions for the word "row" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a. & adv.
Rough; stern; angry.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To use the oar; as, to row well.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 line of persons or things. 2 line of seats across a theatre etc. 3 street with houses along one or each side. in a row 1 forming a row. 2 colloq. In succession (two days in a row). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. v.
1 (often absol.) Propel (a boat) with oars. 2 convey (a passenger) thus. n. 1 spell of rowing. 2 trip in a rowing-boat. rower n. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
11. colloq.
n. 1 loud noise or commotion. 2 fierce quarrel or dispute. 3 severe reprimand. v. 1 make or engage in a row. 2 reprimand. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. slang
“the ROW,” _i.e._, Paternoster Row. The notorious Holywell Street
is now called by its denizens “Bookseller’s Row.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
13. slang
a noisy disturbance, tumult, or trouble. Originally Cambridge,
now universal. Seventy years ago it was written ROUE, which would almost
indicate a French origin, from _roué_, a profligate or disturber of the
peace.—_Vide_ George Parker’s _Life’s Painter_, 1789, p. 122. This is,
however, very unlikely, as the derivation of the French word shows.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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