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A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
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The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
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A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
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Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
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Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.
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The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
v. t.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
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A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.
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The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
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A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.
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Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
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The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
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The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
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A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
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In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.
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of Row
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An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
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Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
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