Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In mining, same as roughs. See rough, n., 4.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of row.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of row.

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Examples

  • You continue thus to deal out the entire pack in successive rows, each row completely blocking the preceding one unless the removal of a card releases the one above it, or _unless the removal of cards in the upper rows_ (Rule II) releases that card from above.

    Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan

  • If you want to take the select () function a bit further you could put all your rows in a array and then add something like this to the function. if (is_array ($rows)) $rows = implode ( ',', $rows);

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Smoked hams and saddles hung in rows from the cross-poles of his bark lodge, and the magnificent pelts of animals carpeted his floors, padded his couch, and clothed his body.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • The Levites stood in rows from the slaughtering places to the altar, and handed the blood and fat from one to another of the officiating priests (2Ch 30: 16-18).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The streets are all exactly straight from north to south, with lanes or alleys, which they call rows, crossing them in straight lines also from east to west, so that it is the most regular built town in England, and seems to have been built all at once; or that the dimensions of the houses and extent of the streets were laid out by consent.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • The streets are all exactly straight from north to south, with lanes or alleys, which they call rows, crossing them in straight lines also from east to west, so that it is the most regular built town in England, and seems to have been built all at once; or that the dimensions of the houses and extent of the streets were laid out by consent.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • The streets are all exactly straight from north to south, with lanes or alleys, which they call rows, crossing them in straight lines also from east to west, so that it is the most regular built town in England, and seems to have been built all at once; or that the dimensions of the houses and extent of the streets were laid out by consent.

    Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Daniel Defoe 1696

  • "Key List") titlerownumber: = truecount+titlecount; There is probably a better way of doing this - this keeps track of titlerows: = titlerows. titlerownumber. "|"; where the title rows are - so we can work out where in the array the key is later on

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Anyway, it was very crowded and we sat in rows of bench seats where four young ladies, each with their own desk, worked tirelessly nonstop.

    Telmex (detached thread) 2010

  • In black silk Sabbath robes and fur hats, they lined up in rows, perched and waiting.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: September 03, 2009 2009

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  • ... is a rows is a rows.

    October 1, 2009

  • *snort*

    October 3, 2009