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ˈRotten Row
[App. f. rotten a. + row n.1 The name was formerly applied to various streets in different towns, the reason for the application being usually obscure.
In Scotland and the north of England the older form is usually ratton raw (see ratton and rottan), and thus app. of different origin.]
1. A road in Hyde Park, extending from Apsley Gate to Kensington Gardens, much used as a fashionable resort for horse or carriage exercise. Now usually called the Row.
1799Sheridan Pizarro Prol., Anxious—yet timorous too! ― his steed to show, The hack Bucephalus of Rotten-row. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xxxix [xl], He had cantered out of Rotten Row into the Park. 1860W. H. Russell Diary India I. 102 The ride in Rotten Row, the dreary promenade by the banks of the unsavoury Serpentine. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 824/1 Its Rotten Row alive with equestrians.
2. Naut. (See quots.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 580 Rotten Row, a line of old ships-in-ordinary in routine order. 1891H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 378 Rotten Row, a certain place in a navy yard in which worn-out vessels are moored. 1975Listener 30 Oct. 581/3 The majority of our line-of-battle ships had been rotting in reserve [by 1778]... Many of the battleships laid up in ‘Rotten Row’ were mere stacks of decayed timber. |