A rowing boat used for competitive rowing; (also metonymically) the crew of such a boat.

At Oxford: (plural) The races rowed in Lent term in eight-oared clinker-built open boats: originally designating the boats; later also the crews.

a light racing sculling-boat used in contests between single scullers.

spec. A kind of clinker-built sculling- or pleasure-boat (see quot. 1886). Also, a long narrow racing-boat for one oarsman, outrigged, usually…

Cambridge University slang. (See quots.) Obsolete.

A light kind of outrigged boat for one sculler, used on the Thames.

A modified form of the ship's gig, used, esp. on the Thames, as a rowing boat, chiefly for racing purposes.

Originally: a boat designed so as to be ideally suited to use in rowing or sculling races, and typically of the lightest and narrowest…

U.S. A light, narrow, racing-boat.

In rowing parlance, applied to the racing eight-oar boat; also used playfully of other craft.

a sculling-boat propelled by eight or four pairs of sculls respectively.

Rowing. A clinker-built racing-boat for one or more scullers, with outriggers and sliding seat, used on the lower Thames. Occasionally attributive.

A boat rowing in the Oxford college races called ‘Torpids’; in plural the Torpids.