rowing boat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rowing boat
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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A team of volunteers have dedicated 11 months to painstaking build a rowing boat as part of a new community scheme to get people on to the water.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023
But when the tide returns, the only transport is a small ferry that Murphy described as “a rowing boat with a little engine on the back.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2022
With mounting excitement, we clambered on to a ferry only modestly upgraded from the rowing boat of Coley’s day – the Beulah, a small boat with an outboard motor.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2020
She had noticed the couple getting into the rowing boat next to us wearing rubber gloves.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2020
Anyhow, that’s where I go, and when I get there, Captain Keelson’s long rowing boat is at the dock.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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