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rowboats

  • plural
    of rowboat.
    rowboat
    noun
    a small boat designed for rowing.

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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

If you like walking along docks, you’ll find Alaskan gill-netters, luxury cruisers, racing sailboats and classic wooden rowboats.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022

His paternal grandfather had made his living handcrafting rowboats for the professional watermen who plied the Thames in London, providing water-taxi and ferry services as their predecessors had done for centuries.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown