rowboat
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Origin of rowboat
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Behind, at some distance, is a rowboat with whalers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The game continues in “Boating Party,” which puts us inside a rowboat right up close to a top-hatted rower whose exertion will paradoxically pull the boat away from where we stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
They had me in the SS Mooch, which was a rinky-dink rowboat.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
The rowboat, named James Robert Hanssen after the Wallingford resident’s late biological father, carried Hanssen and three friends across the Atlantic Ocean in 2006.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2023
But a rowboat is floating, caught between our two houses and a bigger willow tree that kept it from floating down the street.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Minions, we learn in their latest adventure, were originally a seafaring folk who traveled the oceans in rowboats looking for the most evil and despicable master they could possibly find.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Reserve a free one-hour rental to take one of CWB’s pea-pod rowboats for a ride on Lake Union.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The Times tooted its own considerable horn about the armada of kayaks and rowboats it launched to deliver the newspapers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
They patched together a flotilla of 300 boats, including large fishing vessels, rowboats and kayaks, and began furtively ferrying Jews on a voyage to Sweden that could last three hours.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
The friendly man untied the rope from the least sorry of the rowboats, put the rope in Johnny’s hand, wished him luck and went back to his shack.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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