rowing boat
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of rowing boat
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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The brothers' 280kg boat was built to be one of the lightest and strongest ocean rowing boats ever made.
From BBC
Men rowing boats on the river, reading books or newspapers, playing the piano, working at a desk or merely sitting in a comfortable chair lost in thought.
From Los Angeles Times
They made their way ashore in a small rowing boat with rifles to be supplied to the armed rebellion known as the Easter Rising.
From BBC
A man in his 60s is missing after five people were rescued when a rowing boat capsized on the river at Walton-on-Thames.
From BBC
The count is carried out every July by brightly-dressed crews of "swan uppers" in rowing boats over five days.
From BBC
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