Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having rows; formed into rows.
- Striped: same as
rayed , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
row . - adjective Formed into a
row , or rows; having a specified number of rows.
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- _I only_ rowed across the river = _I only_ (= _alone_, an adjective), and no one else, rowed etc., or = I _only rowed_ etc., +but+ did not _swim_ or _wade_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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The term coquette, which we have bor - rowed from the French, is our modern name for her who, in the
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782
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They are SCULLED, not what we should call rowed, by two or four men with very heavy oars made of two pieces of wood working on pins placed on outrigger bars.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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In China, needles are thicker, longer, and sometimes as enthusiastically "rowed" while in a patient as an oar in the hands of a whitewater kayaker.
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No whipped cattle were they, such as rowed the triremes of Phœnicia, but freemen born, sons of Athens, who called it joy to die for her in time of need.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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At length we turned towards the shore to which we rowed, meaning to yield ourselves up; but to our great surprise, the nearer we came to the shore the more did the
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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Initially operators "rowed" the norries with poles, gondola-style, carrying loads of up to 40 people, eight cows or three tons of rice.
KI Media Socheata 2010
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Most of you were all rowed up and excited over nothing really.
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Most of you were all rowed up and excited over nothing really.
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Sounds like the rod had a week spot, grmlin chew, door slam, window rowed up, stepped on.
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