cox
noun
Example Sentences
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Nick Dunlop, the coxswain on the UW men’s top eight, coxed the Australia women’s four to a gold medal at the 2022 Under-23 World Championships.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Her mother, Lisa, rowed for Team USA at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, coming in seventh in the women’s coxed quadruple sculls.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
Rachel Morris won gold in the women's para-rowing single scull, while Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty and cox Henry Fieldman took the title in the coxed pair.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2016
They have won six world championships titles in the pair, and one in the coxed pair, Olympic gold in London, and are unbeaten in more than 60 races since they combined in 2009.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2016
He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
