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rowing boat
[roh-ing]
rowing boat
/ ˈəʊɪŋ /
noun
Usual US and Canadian word: rowboat.a small boat propelled by one or more pairs of oars
Word History and Origins
Origin of rowing boat1
Example Sentences
The brothers' 280kg boat was built to be one of the lightest and strongest ocean rowing boats ever made.
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.
They made their way ashore in a small rowing boat with rifles to be supplied to the armed rebellion known as the Easter Rising.
A man in his 60s is missing after five people were rescued when a rowing boat capsized on the river at Walton-on-Thames.
The count is carried out every July by brightly-dressed crews of "swan uppers" in rowing boats over five days.
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