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▪ I. rower1|ˈrəʊə(r)|
Also 5 roware, -ere, 6 Sc. rollar.
[f. row v.1 Cf. MDu. royer, roeyer (Du. roeijer), MLG. royer, roier, Norw. roar.]
1. One who rows; an oarsman.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. met. iii. (1868) 122 Þe rowers and þe maryners hadden by þis..dronken þe wickede drynkes. 1382Wyclif Ezek. xxvii. 6 Thei maden to thee thi seetis of rowers of yuer of Ynde. c1440Promp. Parv. 437/2 Roware, yn a water, remex. 1513Douglas æneis x. iv. 118 Furth held..Aulestes..with gret strenth of rowaris in that pres. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Remex, To ease or healpe the rowers with settinge vp a sayle. 1600Holland Livy xxxvii. x. 950 Polyxenidas..would neither have rowers nor other mariners in any number about his fleete. 1689Burnet Trav. ii. (1750) 102 Which runs with such a Force, that we went thirty Miles in three Hours, having but one Rower. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. viii. 140 Other accommodations..for the slaves, sailors, and rowers. 1775Johnson West. Isl. Wks. X. 497 Sir Allan victualled it for the day and provided able rowers. 1832Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 113 We..embarked in a covered boat, after a battle with the rowers, who wanted to force us into a wet one. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xvii. 470 A crew of steady rowers can do thirty miles a day.
2. pl. = remex 2.
1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 115 Rudders, or true tail⁓feathers, like the remiges or rowers, are usually stiff, well-pronounced feathers.
▪ II. † rower2 Obs.
[Origin obscure.]
A dead or fallen tree.
1404in Wilts. Archæol. Mag. (1879) XVIII. 164 Sept. Kiesnes [= chênes] appellez ‘rowers’ pour foaile. 1413Patent Roll 1 Hen. V, Arbores mortuas vocatas Rowers. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 306/1 Nor of the undrewode and Rowers in a woode..for theire perpetuell fuell.
▪ III. † ˈrower3 Obs.
[f. row v.7 + -er1.]
One who puts a nap on cloth.
1598Deloney Jacke Newb. ii. 38 There were shearemen everie one,..And hard by them there did remaine Full foure score rowers taking paine.
▪ IV. rower
Sc. variant of roller n.1 |