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[ roh-boht ] / ˈroʊˌboʊt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rowboat ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna small boat designed for rowing. Origin of rowboatFirst recorded in 1530–40; row2 + boat Words nearby rowboatroving commission, Rovno, row, rowan, Rowasa, rowboat, rowdy, rowdyish, rowdyism, Rowe, rowel Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rowboatA professional craftsman was recruited to build the rowboat. Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother|Justin Jones|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST The surface of the water was dark, so that from the shore a rowboat could not be seen for a distance of more than fifty yards. The Web of the Golden Spider|Frederick Orin Bartlett The rowboat trollers fumed and stewed and took their troubles to Jack MacRae. Poor Man's Rock|Bertrand W. Sinclair Anybody ought to know that if an accident happened to her rowboat, the boat would have drifted in to the land. Madge Morton's Trust|Amy D. V. Chalmers
It was a little craft, hardly more than a rowboat with a small kicker gas engine in it. The Motor Boys Afloat|Clarence Young The motor boats at the dock, and so is the rowboat, so theyre on the island. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat|Grace Brooks Hill
British Dictionary definitions for rowboat
nounUS and Canadian a small boat propelled by one or more pairs of oarsAlso called (in Britain and other countries): rowing boat Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to rowboatskiff, lifeboat, life raft, dinghy, canoe, tender, galleon, trireme, bireme, galiot, galleass |