英语词汇“to row dry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.): to row in the opposite direction to the elements; (frequently figurative) to undertake a difficult or arduous task; to work in adverse circumstances, or in the face of opposition.Cf. to swim against the stream or the tide at swim v. 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > have to contend with difficulties

to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.)c1230

to have a tough (hard, long, etc.) row to hoe1810

to spell baker1868

to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket1930

OE Maxims I 185 Werig sceal se wiþ winde roweþ.]

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 58 Ȝe as ȝe wulleð waxen & nawt wenden hindward sikerliche ȝe moten rowen aȝein stream wið muchel swinc breoken forð.

a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 85 (MED) Sorwe hit is to rowen [a1275 Trin. Cambr. roȝen, a1300 Jesus Oxf. reowe] awen [read aȝen] þe se-flode.

c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 141 (MED) Who-so roweþ aȝein þe flod, Off sorwe he shal drinke.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 1781 (MED) Betre is to wayte upon the tyde Than rowe ayein the stremes stronge.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7003 (MED) He þat loueþ þere þat is hat, Aȝenst þe streem he roweþ sore.

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 491 (MED) I woll no more row ageyn þe floode.

1677 A. Horneck Great Law of Consideration vi. 345 He that can row against the Stream, may with greater facility row with it.

1679 W. Petty in E. Fitzmaurice Life Sir W. Petty (1895) 244 I have been travailing in dark dirty crooked ways, and have been rowing against wind and tide.

1786 T. Morell tr. Seneca Epist. II. cxxii. 357 Life is nothing else but rowing against the stream [L. non alia vita est quam contra aquam remigantibus].

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! iv I am not going to be fool enough to row against wind and tide too.

1917 Oregon Hist. Soc. Jrnl. 18 80 During this day they had constantly rowed against the stream, having increased their distance only 12 miles up the river.

2008 S. Rushdie Enchantress of Florence (2009) 95 Always rowing against the tide, eh, Birbal... Now that he is exonerated, your doubts move against him.

†P2. to row past (also beyond) one's reach: to attempt more than one can manage or achieve. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > attempt more than one can do

to row past (also beyond) one's reach1557

to have a tiger by the tail1972

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Q.ii^v I rowe not so farre past my reache.

1575 G. Gascoigne Posies in Wks. (1587) 131 Hold wyth the head, and row not past thy reach.

1585 A. Bourcher in R. Edwards Paradyse Daintie Devises (new ed.) sig. D Perhaps you think me bolde that dare presume to teache, As one yt runns beyond his race, & rowes beyond his reach.

1604 J. Hind Lysimachus & Varrona sig. n4 I would wish my gallant youthes..not to row past their reach.

P3. to row guard (also †the rounds): to perform guard duty in a boat; (in early use esp.) to make a circuit of the warships in a harbour.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (intransitive)] > do rounds

to row guard (also the rounds)1756

1756 Log ‘Tyger’ 30 Dec. in S. C. Hill Bengal (1905) 10 Rowed guard. At half past 3 the guard boat fired two muskets and burnt a false fire as an alarm.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Guard-boat, a boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war which are laid up in any harbour.

1845 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. No. 11. 639 Next day the boats of the Thunderbolt rowed guard and prevented any landing.

1903 G. E. Belknap in F. S. Hill Twenty-six Hist. Ships 346 A powerful search-light was kept in operation all night, and boats rowed guard on moonless nights.

1992 P. O'Brian Truelove (1993) 62 They were within a mile of the Hermione, when they were seen by two Spanish gunboats rowing guard.

P4. to row dry.

a. To row without splashing water into the boat with the oars. row dry! (Nautical): a command to row in this manner. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > row in specific manner or style

sheave1611

to pull away1676

paddle1697

to stretch one's oars1697

to stretch to the oar (or stroke)1697

to row dry1769

to stretch out1836

screw1866

bucket1869

to pull one's weight1878

sky1881

to wash out1884

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Nage sec, row dry! the order to row without wetting the passengers.

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. xi. 328 Row dry, boys!—lay on! Pull two, back three!

1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days (1999) i. 7 Bonden shoved off, said ‘Give way’, and with exact timing, rowing dry with long grave strokes, they pulled the barge.

†b. To perform the action of rowing without the oars touching the water (through incompetence, or as an exercise, punishment, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > pretend to row

to row dry1834

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 143 ‘There's that fellow Jones..never touching the water all the while... He's rowing dry, your honour—only making bilave.’

1866 Student & Schoolmate 17 85 Some ‘rowed dry’ and ‘caught crabs’, and some knocked the backs and elbows of their companions.

1890 Cent. Dict. at word To row dry... To go through the motions of rowing in a boat swung at the davits of a ship, as a sailor in punishment for some offense connected with boats or rowing.

P5. to look one way and row another (also to row one way and look another): to say one thing while thinking or doing another; to be duplicitous, hypocritical, or double-dealing. Now rare.Common in the 17th cent., often with similative or allusive reference to rowers (here esp. the Thames watermen) facing backwards while moving forwards.

ΚΠ

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. P^v And so imitate the waterman whiche lookethe one waye, and roweth another.

1610 S. Rowlands Roome for Messe of Knaues sig. B^v Hee's a dogged knaue, and will bite before he barke... His deuise is, a Waterman, looking one way and rowing another.

a1632 T. Dekker Wonder of Kingdome (1636) sig. G4^v Now in good sooth my Lord, shee has but vs'd you As watermen use their fares, for shee look'd one way, And row'd another.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 138 My Great Grand-father was but a Water-man, looking one way, and Rowing another; and I got most of my Estate by the same occupation.

1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 650 Certain it was that in her Court there were persons that looked one way and rowed another.

1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant iv. 35 I'm tired to death of these Waterman politicians, looking one way and rowing another, in religion or politics.

1937 R. W. Winston It's Far Cry iii. xxvi. 344 Southern leaders should not be forced to row one way and look another.

P6.

a. to row in the same (also in one) boat: (of two or more people) to be engaged in the same project or scheme; to share a common outlook or situation. Cf. to be in the same boat at boat n.¹ Phrases 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]

jousta1325

ally?a1400

joinc1400

associe1441

confederc1460

to stick together1525

band1530

to join forces1560

colleaguec1565

alliance1569

to enter league1578

unite1579

interleague1590

confederate1591

to join hands1598

combine1608

injointa1616

combinda1626

bandy1633

comply1646

federate1648

leaguea1649

associate1653

coalesce1657

to understand each other1663

sociate1688

to row in the same (also in one) boat1787

rendezvous1817

to make common cause (with)1845

to sing the same song1846

cahoot1857

to gang up1910

jungle1922

1787 Sessions Papers Cent. Criminal Court Feb. 280 If you will row in one boat with us, and become an accomplice of mine, I will put some hundreds in your way.

1801 G. Hanger Life II. 347 This society (pardon the vulgarity of the expression!) all rowed in one boat, passing bills from one to the other.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 202 Row in the boat, to go snacks or have a share in the benefit arising from any transaction to which you are privy.

1962 F. O'Connor Let. 6 Sept. in Habit of Being (1979) 491 If I can lay my hands on it, I will send you an article about him and St. Thomas in which they are rowing in the same boat.

2007 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 21 Dec. sp 2 All the players..that made the list..have been added to the bad books... You are all now rowing in the same boat.

b. slang (chiefly British and Irish English). to row in: to join in (or, occasionally, thrust oneself into) some scheme, conspiracy, or project; to combine forces with some person or group.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > co-operate [verb (intransitive)]

conjoin1532

conspirea1538

concurc1550

co-operate1604

coadjute1612

coacta1616

to jump in quilla1616

co-operate1616

co-opere1663

to pull together1772

rally1792

to row in1861

collaborate1871

to play ball (with)1903

to play along1929

play1937

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour III. 67 There was three of us rowed in with it [sc. the making and selling of Guy Fawkes figures], so we got a few shillings a-piece.

1897 Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 5/7 It's very likely the sellers..are anything but satisfied with the results of sales by auction where a ‘knock-out’ is arranged, and especially where the auctioneer ‘rows in’ with the crew.

1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack xvi. 202 I think these boys had better row in with us... We may as well stick together.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vii. 194 What if they try to row in?

1998 E. MacDermott Clann na Poblachta v. 66 ‎Some of the Independents would have to row in with them..to make up the required numbers.

P7. Nautical. rowed of all!: a command to cease rowing and ship oars. Now archaic and historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [phrase] > order to cease rowing

rowed of all!1802

1802 N. Salmon Boyer's Royal Dict. (rev. ed.) at Row Rowed of all, lève rames.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xi. 172 ‘In bow—rowed of all.’ The boat was laid alongside.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 583 Rowed of all, the orders for the rowers to cease, and toss their oars into the boat simultaneously, in naval style.

1904 G. Cross Auotbiogr. Stage Coachman I. vi. 112 ‘In bow—rowed of all’, said I, as the well-manned boat glided silently to the foot of the stairs.

1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) 206 ‘Rowed of all’, cried Reade at last, and the bargemen tossed their oars into the boat, Navy-fashion.

P8.

a. to row (a person) up Salt River: see salt river n. 2b.

†b. U.S. slang to row (a person) up: to subject (a person) to severe verbal castigation or abuse. Obsolete. [J. R. Bartlett in Dict. Americanisms (1848) says the phrase ‘is an essential Westernism, and [is] derived from the practice of making refractory slaves or servants row up..heavy keelboats..against the current... It was thus regarded as a punishment.’ But compare row v.⁶ 3 in the same sense, with which there may have been some confusion.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely

dressc1405

wipe1523

to take up1530

whip1530

to shake upa1556

trounce1607

castigatea1616

lasha1616

objurgate1616

thunderstrike1638

snub1672

drape1683

cut1737

rowa1798

score1812

to dress down1823

to pitch into ——1823

wig1829

to row (a person) up1838

to catch or get Jesse1839

slate1840

drop1853

to drop (down) to or on (to)1859

to give (a person) rats1862

to jump upon1868

to give (a person) fits1871

to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880

lambaste1886

ruck1899

bollock1901

bawl1903

scrub1911

burn1914

to hang, draw, and quarter1930

to tear a strip off1940

to tear (someone) off a strip1940

brass1943

rocket1948

bitch1952

tee1955

fan-

1838 J. R. Lowell in Outlook (1898) 58 338 When I recite Locke, he [sc. the tutor] generally spends three quarters of the time in endeavoring to row up that delectable writer.

1845 N.Y. Tribune 10 Dec. in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1848) at To row up We should really like, of all things, to row up the majority of Congress as it deserves in regard to the practice.

1850 J. R. Lowell in H. E. Scudder James Russell Lowell (1901) I. 303 I am tired of controversy, and, though I have cut out the oars with which to row up my friend Bowen, yet I have enough to do.

P9. to row (a competitor) to a standstill: see standstill n. 2.

单词	to row dry
释义	> as lemmas to row dry Phrases P1. to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.): to row in the opposite direction to the elements; (frequently figurative) to undertake a difficult or arduous task; to work in adverse circumstances, or in the face of opposition.Cf. to swim against the stream or the tide at swim v. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > have to contend with difficulties to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.)c1230 to have a tough (hard, long, etc.) row to hoe1810 to spell baker1868 to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket1930 OE Maxims I 185 Werig sceal se wiþ winde roweþ.] c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 58 Ȝe as ȝe wulleð waxen & nawt wenden hindward sikerliche ȝe moten rowen aȝein stream wið muchel swinc breoken forð. a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 85 (MED) Sorwe hit is to rowen [a1275 Trin. Cambr. roȝen, a1300 Jesus Oxf. reowe] awen [read aȝen] þe se-flode. c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 141 (MED) Who-so roweþ aȝein þe flod, Off sorwe he shal drinke. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 1781 (MED) Betre is to wayte upon the tyde Than rowe ayein the stremes stronge. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7003 (MED) He þat loueþ þere þat is hat, Aȝenst þe streem he roweþ sore. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 491 (MED) I woll no more row ageyn þe floode. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law of Consideration vi. 345 He that can row against the Stream, may with greater facility row with it. 1679 W. Petty in E. Fitzmaurice Life Sir W. Petty (1895) 244 I have been travailing in dark dirty crooked ways, and have been rowing against wind and tide. 1786 T. Morell tr. Seneca Epist. II. cxxii. 357 Life is nothing else but rowing against the stream [L. non alia vita est quam contra aquam remigantibus]. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! iv I am not going to be fool enough to row against wind and tide too. 1917 Oregon Hist. Soc. Jrnl. 18 80 During this day they had constantly rowed against the stream, having increased their distance only 12 miles up the river. 2008 S. Rushdie Enchantress of Florence (2009) 95 Always rowing against the tide, eh, Birbal... Now that he is exonerated, your doubts move against him. †P2. to row past (also beyond) one's reach: to attempt more than one can manage or achieve. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > attempt more than one can do to row past (also beyond) one's reach1557 to have a tiger by the tail1972 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Q.ii^v I rowe not so farre past my reache. 1575 G. Gascoigne Posies in Wks. (1587) 131 Hold wyth the head, and row not past thy reach. 1585 A. Bourcher in R. Edwards Paradyse Daintie Devises (new ed.) sig. D Perhaps you think me bolde that dare presume to teache, As one yt runns beyond his race, & rowes beyond his reach. 1604 J. Hind Lysimachus & Varrona sig. n4 I would wish my gallant youthes..not to row past their reach. P3. to row guard (also †the rounds): to perform guard duty in a boat; (in early use esp.) to make a circuit of the warships in a harbour. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (intransitive)] > do rounds to row guard (also the rounds)1756 1756 Log ‘Tyger’ 30 Dec. in S. C. Hill Bengal (1905) 10 Rowed guard. At half past 3 the guard boat fired two muskets and burnt a false fire as an alarm. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Guard-boat, a boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war which are laid up in any harbour. 1845 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. No. 11. 639 Next day the boats of the Thunderbolt rowed guard and prevented any landing. 1903 G. E. Belknap in F. S. Hill Twenty-six Hist. Ships 346 A powerful search-light was kept in operation all night, and boats rowed guard on moonless nights. 1992 P. O'Brian Truelove (1993) 62 They were within a mile of the Hermione, when they were seen by two Spanish gunboats rowing guard. P4. to row dry. a. To row without splashing water into the boat with the oars. row dry! (Nautical): a command to row in this manner. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > row in specific manner or style sheave1611 to pull away1676 paddle1697 to stretch one's oars1697 to stretch to the oar (or stroke)1697 to row dry1769 to stretch out1836 screw1866 bucket1869 to pull one's weight1878 sky1881 to wash out1884 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Nage sec, row dry! the order to row without wetting the passengers. 1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. xi. 328 Row dry, boys!—lay on! Pull two, back three! 1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days (1999) i. 7 Bonden shoved off, said ‘Give way’, and with exact timing, rowing dry with long grave strokes, they pulled the barge. †b. To perform the action of rowing without the oars touching the water (through incompetence, or as an exercise, punishment, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > pretend to row to row dry1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 143 ‘There's that fellow Jones..never touching the water all the while... He's rowing dry, your honour—only making bilave.’ 1866 Student & Schoolmate 17 85 Some ‘rowed dry’ and ‘caught crabs’, and some knocked the backs and elbows of their companions. 1890 Cent. Dict. at word To row dry... To go through the motions of rowing in a boat swung at the davits of a ship, as a sailor in punishment for some offense connected with boats or rowing. P5. to look one way and row another (also to row one way and look another): to say one thing while thinking or doing another; to be duplicitous, hypocritical, or double-dealing. Now rare.Common in the 17th cent., often with similative or allusive reference to rowers (here esp. the Thames watermen) facing backwards while moving forwards. ΚΠ 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. P^v And so imitate the waterman whiche lookethe one waye, and roweth another. 1610 S. Rowlands Roome for Messe of Knaues sig. B^v Hee's a dogged knaue, and will bite before he barke... His deuise is, a Waterman, looking one way and rowing another. a1632 T. Dekker Wonder of Kingdome (1636) sig. G4^v Now in good sooth my Lord, shee has but vs'd you As watermen use their fares, for shee look'd one way, And row'd another. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 138 My Great Grand-father was but a Water-man, looking one way, and Rowing another; and I got most of my Estate by the same occupation. View more context for this quotation 1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 650 Certain it was that in her Court there were persons that looked one way and rowed another. 1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant iv. 35 I'm tired to death of these Waterman politicians, looking one way and rowing another, in religion or politics. 1937 R. W. Winston It's Far Cry iii. xxvi. 344 Southern leaders should not be forced to row one way and look another. P6. a. to row in the same (also in one) boat: (of two or more people) to be engaged in the same project or scheme; to share a common outlook or situation. Cf. to be in the same boat at boat n.¹ Phrases 3a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] jousta1325 ally?a1400 joinc1400 associe1441 confederc1460 to stick together1525 band1530 to join forces1560 colleaguec1565 alliance1569 to enter league1578 unite1579 interleague1590 confederate1591 to join hands1598 combine1608 injointa1616 combinda1626 bandy1633 comply1646 federate1648 leaguea1649 associate1653 coalesce1657 to understand each other1663 sociate1688 to row in the same (also in one) boat1787 rendezvous1817 to make common cause (with)1845 to sing the same song1846 cahoot1857 to gang up1910 jungle1922 1787 Sessions Papers Cent. Criminal Court Feb. 280 If you will row in one boat with us, and become an accomplice of mine, I will put some hundreds in your way. 1801 G. Hanger Life II. 347 This society (pardon the vulgarity of the expression!) all rowed in one boat, passing bills from one to the other. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 202 Row in the boat, to go snacks or have a share in the benefit arising from any transaction to which you are privy. 1962 F. O'Connor Let. 6 Sept. in Habit of Being (1979) 491 If I can lay my hands on it, I will send you an article about him and St. Thomas in which they are rowing in the same boat. 2007 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 21 Dec. sp 2 All the players..that made the list..have been added to the bad books... You are all now rowing in the same boat. b. slang (chiefly British and Irish English). to row in: to join in (or, occasionally, thrust oneself into) some scheme, conspiracy, or project; to combine forces with some person or group. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > co-operate [verb (intransitive)] conjoin1532 conspirea1538 concurc1550 co-operate1604 coadjute1612 coacta1616 to jump in quilla1616 co-operate1616 co-opere1663 to pull together1772 rally1792 to row in1861 collaborate1871 to play ball (with)1903 to play along1929 play1937 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour III. 67 There was three of us rowed in with it [sc. the making and selling of Guy Fawkes figures], so we got a few shillings a-piece. 1897 Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 5/7 It's very likely the sellers..are anything but satisfied with the results of sales by auction where a ‘knock-out’ is arranged, and especially where the auctioneer ‘rows in’ with the crew. 1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack xvi. 202 I think these boys had better row in with us... We may as well stick together. 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vii. 194 What if they try to row in? 1998 E. MacDermott Clann na Poblachta v. 66 ‎Some of the Independents would have to row in with them..to make up the required numbers. P7. Nautical. rowed of all!: a command to cease rowing and ship oars. Now archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [phrase] > order to cease rowing rowed of all!1802 1802 N. Salmon Boyer's Royal Dict. (rev. ed.) at Row Rowed of all, lève rames. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xi. 172 ‘In bow—rowed of all.’ The boat was laid alongside. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 583 Rowed of all, the orders for the rowers to cease, and toss their oars into the boat simultaneously, in naval style. 1904 G. Cross Auotbiogr. Stage Coachman I. vi. 112 ‘In bow—rowed of all’, said I, as the well-manned boat glided silently to the foot of the stairs. 1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) 206 ‘Rowed of all’, cried Reade at last, and the bargemen tossed their oars into the boat, Navy-fashion. P8. a. to row (a person) up Salt River: see salt river n. 2b. †b. U.S. slang to row (a person) up: to subject (a person) to severe verbal castigation or abuse. Obsolete. [J. R. Bartlett in Dict. Americanisms (1848) says the phrase ‘is an essential Westernism, and [is] derived from the practice of making refractory slaves or servants row up..heavy keelboats..against the current... It was thus regarded as a punishment.’ But compare row v.⁶ 3 in the same sense, with which there may have been some confusion.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely dressc1405 wipe1523 to take up1530 whip1530 to shake upa1556 trounce1607 castigatea1616 lasha1616 objurgate1616 thunderstrike1638 snub1672 drape1683 cut1737 rowa1798 score1812 to dress down1823 to pitch into ——1823 wig1829 to row (a person) up1838 to catch or get Jesse1839 slate1840 drop1853 to drop (down) to or on (to)1859 to give (a person) rats1862 to jump upon1868 to give (a person) fits1871 to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880 lambaste1886 ruck1899 bollock1901 bawl1903 scrub1911 burn1914 to hang, draw, and quarter1930 to tear a strip off1940 to tear (someone) off a strip1940 brass1943 rocket1948 bitch1952 tee1955 fan- 1838 J. R. Lowell in Outlook (1898) 58 338 When I recite Locke, he [sc. the tutor] generally spends three quarters of the time in endeavoring to row up that delectable writer. 1845 N.Y. Tribune 10 Dec. in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1848) at To row up We should really like, of all things, to row up the majority of Congress as it deserves in regard to the practice. 1850 J. R. Lowell in H. E. Scudder James Russell Lowell (1901) I. 303 I am tired of controversy, and, though I have cut out the oars with which to row up my friend Bowen, yet I have enough to do. P9. to row (a competitor) to a standstill: see standstill n. 2. extracted from rowv.¹ < as lemmas
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