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rowingn.1

Brit. /ˈrəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊɪŋ/
Forms: see row v.1 and -ing suffix1; also Old English rouing (Northumbrian).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < row v.1 + -ing suffix1. Compare Middle High German rüegunge the act of rowing.With rowing up n. at Phrases see the discussion at row v.1 (compare to row (a person) up at row v.1 Phrases 8b); compare earlier rowing n.5
1. The action (or †occupation) of propelling a boat, canoe, etc., by means of oars. Also in figurative contexts.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing
rowingOE
rowth1467
remigation1623
oarage1872
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark vi. 48 Uidens eos laborantes in remigando, erat enim uentus contrarius eis : gesæh hia wynnennde in rowincg wæs forðon wind wiðerword him.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xxi. 8 Alii autem discipuli nauigio uenerunt : oðri uutedlice ðegnas on scip uel on rouing uel cuomon.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark vi. 48 He syȝ hem trauelinge in rowynge [L. remigando]; sothli the wynd was contrarie to hem.
c1390 (c1350) Proprium Sanctorum in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1888) 81 112 Þis is to mene, as we rede, Þe trauayl of þe disciples dede. Þe Rouwyng in Contrariusnesse Of þeose wyndes more and lesse Bitokneþ diuers trauayle Of holi churche.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 147v Þe..fenix arisiþ a newe bridde..and in passinge of tym he is..wiþ rowinge and oores of wynges [L. alarum..remigia]..restorid in to þe kynde of a bridde.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 204 (MED) Manye dyeden for weryness of rowynge aȝenst þo stronge wawes.
a1450 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Laud) in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 197 Suche another rowynge..Was not sene of princes many a day.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 13 Her Fellouys..vnnethe with rowyng and wyth grette Perill of al there lyues..come ayeyn to lond.
1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 16 §1 Watermen exercising, using and occupying Rowing upon the River of Thames.
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 427 The Continued Course of Nature, like a running River, requires a continuall Rowing and Sayling against the Streame.
1646 T. Fuller Andronicus v. xv. sig. I8v Here, what tugging, what Towing, what Rowing!
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 168 I was..fatigu'd with Rowing, or Paddling, as it is call'd.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Vogue, the rowing of a galley.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 55 The very best and most effectual posture in a man is that of rowing.
1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods x. 285 A breeze..only crisped the surface of the water, without making rowing a chore.
2. Sport. This activity as a sport or pastime, now typically using light, narrow boats designed for this purpose.Cf. earlier rowing match n. at Compounds 1b.The earliest rowing races took place between teams of watermen on the Thames in the late 18th cent., and the sport was thence taken up by public schools and universities.
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1807 J. Sinclair Code Health & Longevity I. 604 The boys at some of the great schools..amuse themselves..with this exercise;..rowing..ought to be more cultivated than it is.
1878 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 285/1 Even rowing is pluckily kept up through the winter... The crews in training for the ‘torpid’ races..never think of shirking this work.
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. 259 There was also special training in swimming and nautics, as rowing and sailing.
1976 R. Massey When I was Young xxvii. 233 Rowing was more than a sport at Oxford, it was a cult. It was ingrained in the university.
2008 Metro 11 Aug. (London ed.) 51/1 The women's quadruple scull team showed their gold-medal credentials..on another successful day for British rowing.

Phrases

rowing up n. figurative Obsolete a severe reprimand or scolding (see row v.1 Phrases 8).
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1846 N.Y. Tribune 30 Jan. 2/4 The most spicy part of the proceedings in the Senate was the rowing up which Mr. Hannegan of Ia. gave Mr. Ritchie of The Union.

Compounds

See also rowing adj.1
C1.
a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 2), as rowing blue, rowing club, rowing room, rowing shirt, rowing supper, etc.
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1799 I. Weld Trav. N. Amer. xxix. 274 The ‘rowing duet’, which as they sing they mark time to with each stroke of the oar.
1808 Sporting Mag. Apr. 147/2 A set of gentlemen, amateurs of the oar, have formed a Rowing Club, under the title of the Funny Society.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. 295 Those ferocious dandies, in rowing shirts and astonishing pins and waistcoats.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 264 A stretch of the land-water wide enough to give us rowing-room.
1866 ‘Argonaut’ Arts Rowing & Training 86 The private races of the numerous rowing clubs in the kingdom.
1877 Wandsworth Boro' News 16 Sept. 11/2 The victorious rowing eight..won a gold medal in the world rowing championships in Amsterdam.
1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 67 As to these rowing suppers, he would set them down at once.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiii. 141 Rather a blood. Got his rowing-blue and all that.
1987 X. Hollander Happy Hooker (rev. ed.) ii. 28 I joined the snooty rowing club, just so that I could catch a glimpse of her.
2007 K. Munson Wyandotte v. 115 (caption) The rowing shirts' insignia identifies the team during races as the ‘Y&’ crew.
b.
rowing match n.
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a1695 Earl of Lauderdale in tr. Virgil Wks. (?1709) v. 173 A rowing match of four Gallies.
1788 C. Powys Diary 23 Apr. in Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 230 The view of the Thames is uncommonly grand, and..the rowing matches [between teams of watermen]..are seen to the greatest advantage.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. ii. 70 Rowing matches were substituted..upon the Thames during the summer season.
1906 B. Stoneman Plants S. Afr. viii. 64 The stroke oar in a rowing match will lose six or seven pounds..during a four-mile race.
2008 G. R. Gems et al. Sports in Amer. Hist. iv. 109 In the mid-nineteenth century, both amateur and professional rowing matches and regattas were staged at city waterfronts.
c. With the sense ‘involved or participating in the sport of rowing’, as rowing crew, rowing eight, rowing man, etc.
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1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. xxx. 294 There were rowing-men, whose discourse was of sculling matches.
1877 Wandsworth Boro' News 16 Sept. 11/2 The victorious rowing eight..won a gold medal.
1985 G. Benford Artifact iv. iv. 237 She could see rowing crews earnestly laboring up the gray Charles beneath facetious, cottonball clouds.
2007 M. R. Beauchamp in S. Jowett & D. Lavallee Social Psychol. in Sport iv. xiii. 190/2 Mutually interdependent dyads that perform together in competition (eg, tennis doubles, ice-skating dyads, or rowing pairs).
C2. With the sense ‘propelled by oars’, as rowing barge, rowing shallop, rowing ship, etc. See also rowing boat n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > other types of rowing boat
coblec950
row barge1466
bark1477
rowing barge1548
galley1570
caïque1625
catur1653
dory1726
skiff1793
dinghy1810
panga1811
dinghy1818
randan1838
dragon boat1846
guinea-boat1867
drive boat1879
pea pod1884
in-rigger1893
pointer1901
sandolo1928
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxiij A small rowe barge, with three other small rowing shippes.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. f.142v As long as ere shee could shee lookt vppon the rowing keele.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 89 Like..rowing Scull, he's fain to..Look one way, and another move.
1675 tr. F. Alcoforado Hist. Relation Discov. Madera 28 Made himself ready to go a shore..(in one of the rowing shallops beforementioned [sic]).
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ii. 20 A kneeling Figure, holding a Bow in one hand..is Revers'd with a Rowing Galley.
1778 Monthly Rev. Mar. 228 Our Author..made several voyages in the seas of the Levant, in rowing vessels of various kinds.
1835 United Service Mag. July 354 Till the beginning of the seventeenth century, those rovers were only possessed of rowing craft.
1884 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 6 Dec. 99/1 The boat house at Cornell was broken into last week, and a number of rowing sculls were stolen.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 10/1 Two 40ft. steam pinnaces and one 30ft. rowing barge.
1985–6 Lifeboat Winter 273/1 The Lowestoft boat..was a sailing as well as a rowing lifeboat.
1999 Regatta Feb. 20/4 The Resolute rowing shell was designed by Jim Taylor and Penn Edmonds.
C3. With the sense ‘connected with, used in, rowing’.
a.
rowing gear n.
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1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. f. 63, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane boit with hir haill sailling and rowing geir estimat to lxvj li. xiij s. iiij d.
1613 in Scot. Hist. Rev. (1905) July 360 Ane gailley..with her sailling and rowing geir.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 770/2 Rowing Gear, outriggers and various devices to assist the oarsman.
1998 Washington Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 30 Oct. 33 The bar is decorated with rowing gear from his days on Harvard crew.
rowing seat n.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 438 Rowynge sete yn a schyppe, transtrum.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Riem-banck, the Seats, or Rowing-seats in a Galley or Boate.
1881 Canad. Monthly Jan. 49/2 The girls preferred the risk of standing on the rowing seats to having their feet on the same level with lobsters.
1912 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 283 The boat was pitching and tossing, two men in the rowing-seats keeping the high sharp prow pointing toward the land.
2006 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 16 Jan. 4 One day I was thrown off my rowing seat by a giant wave.
rowing song n.
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1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 82 The men had what were known as ‘Jorrams’ or rowing songs, to which they kept time with their oars.
1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters Introd. p. xxvii Rowing-songs should..also be included in this class.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) ix. 96 Early travelers heard rowing songs and sea shanties, later specialists found work songs.
2002 Mariner's Mirror 88 24 Traditional rowing songs..were important to galley crews.
rowing wheel n.
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1808 R. Trevithick & R. Dickinson Brit. Patent 3148 In a ship..we place a rowing wheel shaped like an undershot water-wheel furnished with floats or pallets.
2001 J. A. Fredston Rowing to Latitude (2002) iii. 59 A colossal repair kit, with enough supplies to..replace rowing wheels that are ratcheting along like flat tires.
b.
rowing machine n. (a) a machine which propels a boat (obsolete); (b) an exercise machine with oars and a sliding seat, for exercising the muscles used in rowing.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others
trochus1706
troque1743
chamber horse1747
dumb-bell1785
stock1831
rowing machine1848
chest-expander1850
weights1862
stationary bicycle1883
punching bag1888
medicine ball1895
punching ball1895
stationary bike1899
kettlebell1908
rower1933
Exercycle1936
exercise bicycle1937
exercise bike1946
exercise cycle1952
roller1970
life cycle1973
multi-gym1976
gut-buster1983
roller1992
1848 J. de Clinton Locke tr. J. D. Wyss Swiss Family Robinson 2nd Ser. I. x. 95 (heading) The Rowing-Machine.
1894 Outing Mar. 458/1 Hard work on rowing-machines or in the tank,..and a run of two miles per day.
1944 T. Rattigan While Sun Shines ii. 58 If you want exercise I've got a rowing machine in the bathroom.
2002 W. Self Dorian (2003) 270 At the city-centre health club..the rowing machines were arranged haphazardly.
rowing stick n. a stick used as an oar; (also poetic) an oar.
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1907 J. M. Synge Aran Islands iv. 184 One of the men wanted to kill one [sc. a bird] with a thole-pin, and the other man wanted to kill one with his rowing stick. I was afraid they would upset the curagh.
1923 E. Pound XXX Cantos xx. 93 Their names are not written in bronze Nor their rowing sticks set with Elpenor's.
2008 J. Brindley City of Screams (2009) lxxx. 240 Even the rowing sticks they'd started out with had had the ends bitten off by crouching tiger-sharks.
rowing tank n. a large indoor tank containing a static boat in which a rower's technique is practised and monitored.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race > training > tank for metered practice
rowing tank1887
1887 Cent. Mag. June 191/2 Nobody unprovided with these newfangled rowing-tanks, slides, swivel oar-locks, and wind-boards can hope to stay near him in a race.
1939 G. O. Nickalls & P. C. Mallam Rowing iv. 87 The object of the rowing tank is to allow oarsmen to indulge in..rowing without going out on the river.
1996 Observer 31 Mar. (Sports section) 5/2 Five gruelling hours a day training..on the rowing tank and out on the Boat Race course.
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rowingn.2

Brit. /ˈraʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraʊɪŋ/
Forms: see row adj. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row adj., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < row adj. + -ing suffix1. Compare slightly later row v.5 Compare later roughing n.
Textiles. Now historical.
The process of putting a nap on cloth.The entry in E. Phillips New World of Words (1706), ‘Rowing of Clothes, is the smoothing of them with a Roller, &c.’, is probably an incorrect interpretation.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > putting nap on
napping1440
rowing1448
cottoning1565
friezing1565
mozing1842
1448–50 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 309 (MED) Payed for þe lyuere of þe feleshepe..for Cloth..for barbynge, for rowynge, for greynynge, and Sherynge.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 170 (MED) Yf þe woole be corse, the cloth is mykyll the worse; Yet in-to lytyll þei putt owte of purse As mych for gardyng, spynnyng, and weuyng..rowyng, dyyng, and scheryng.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. Gv The Clothworker what with rowing and setting in a fine nap, with powdering it & pressing it,..deale so cunningly [etc.].
1642 Humble Petition Clothworkers London (single sheet) Many Gig-Mills for rowing of Cloath, have beene erected and used of late yeares about Stroudwater.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vi. 290 An Instrument used by the Clothworkers,..for their..picking of the Wool Flocks, which comes off a piece of Cloth in the Rowing of it.
1715 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Abridg'd (ed. 3) II. at cited word The Rowing of Cloth.
1796 A. Aikin Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Tour N. Wales (1797) 73 The shearmen..raise the wool on one side with cards, which is called rowing.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts x. 145 Finally, the clean felted cloth was often brushed with teazles (teazling, rowing) to raise a nap of fine hairs on the surface.
1991 I. W. Archer Pursuit of Stability iv. 102 The rejection by the assistants of the Clothworkers' Company of a labour-saving device for the rowing of cloth in 1560.
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rowingn.3

Brit. /ˈrəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊɪŋ/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row v.7, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < row v.7 (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix1. Compare later roving n.3 With sense 2 compare earlier rowan n.3 and roving n.3 2.
Spinning.
1. = roving n.3 1. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting
rowing1727
slubbing1779
1727 in A. Law Educ. Edinb. (1965) 226 The twisting of threed bleching milning Hanking or Reeling Back rowing and upmaking of the same.
1738 J. Munn Observ. Brit. Wool 19 There are..about 600 Men, Women, and Children, employ'd..in picking of Wool, Winding, Warping, Weaving, Shearing, Rowing, Dying, Burling,..&c.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 335 The Number of Hands which it employs..in Spinning, Carding, Rowing,..is almost incredible.
1816 W. Singers in Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 4 14 In Scotland,..machinery is in use for teazing, carding, and rowing of wool.
1892 W. Cunningham Growth Eng. Industry & Commerce (ed. 2) II. 456 The old mills were used for perching and burling and the new ones for rowing and mosing.
2. = roving n.3 2a. Now rare (Irish English in later use).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > rove or slubbing
rowa1646
rowan1748
roving1785
slubbing1786
rove1789
rowing1802
slub1851
1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Rowan, Rowing,..wool as it comes from the cards.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Rowings, wool made up in long rolls, with cards, before it is spun.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 83/2 Dollian, a tray..used for holding the ‘rowings’ of wool for the spinning wheel.
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rowingn.4

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row n.1, row v.2, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < row n.1 or row v.2 (although neither of these is attested in a sense relating to streakiness, but compare rew n.1 3) + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier rowy adj.1 and rewey adj. Compare slightly later rowy adj.1 2.
Obsolete. rare.
The action or fact of becoming streaky. Cf. rowy adj.1 2.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > streakiness > streaking
streaking1677
rowing1741
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May viii. 136 Others make a Brine and therein put Pounds of fresh Butter, and it will preserve them from Rowing.
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rowingn.5

Brit. /ˈraʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraʊɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row v.6, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < row v.6 + -ing suffix1.
1. A scolding, severe talking to.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun]
telingeOE
chastiment?c1225
snapinga1300
snibbinga1300
reproving?1316
undernimminga1325
correctiona1340
threapening1340
admonishingc1350
reproofa1375
scourgingc1374
correptionc1380
repreyningc1390
reprehensiona1413
undertakingc1430
rebuke?a1439
admonition1440
correptingc1449
rebut?c1450
reprehendingc1450
redargution1483
reproval1493
increpation1502
prisec1540
tasking1543
check1588
improof1590
snubbing1600
threap1636
compellation1656
reprovement1675
reprimanding1698
rowing1812
lecturing1861
carpeting1888
eldering1912
woodshedding1940
stick1956
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > severe > instance of
choking pear1546
choke-pear1573
a flea in one's ear1577
rattle1652
juniper letter1655
juniper lecture1706
siserary1771
wig1789
a word of a sort1796
rowing1812
wigging1813
sloan1823
scorcher1842
rubdowna1846
tickler1846
slating1881
bawl-out1926
earful1929
caning1933
a kick in the pants1933
rollicking1938
rocket1941
bollocking1946
butt-kicking1970
1812 'Miss Byron' Englishman IV. i. 20 Lady Charlotte was sure, if her papa knew how they lived, he would give her aunt a good rowing.
1832 E. Grosvenor Let. 15 Dec. in G. Huxley Lady Elizabeth & Grosvenors (1965) iv. 103 To some magistrates who behaved shabbily B. gave what was called ‘a proper rowing’.
a1846 B. R. Haydon Life (1853) iv. 66 Hoppner was in a fury, and on the first opportunity, gave Wilkie a tremendous rowing.
1896 G. N. Boothby In Strange Company ii. vi When I saw that my rowings proved useless, I ironed him for a couple of days.
1908 ‘A. Lilburn’ Rose Campion's Platonic xiii. 156 She gave me a good rowing for my selfishness, but I never intended it.
1997 A. Fugard Captain's Tiger (1999) i. ii. 10 You looked so real, so alive, as if you could speak and were going to give me a rowing for what I was doing.
2. Noisy or heated quarrelling.
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1853 E. C. G. Murray From Mayfair to Marathon xvi. 173 The scene of rowing and fighting and scrambling on that road was as bad as it could ever have been at Donnybrook Fair.
1918 Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. 1 Oct. 35/2 ‘Aw, 'tisn't worth arguing about, anyhow,’ said Slat indifferently. ‘What's a lot of rowing get you?’
1998 R. Ray Certain Age 36 I heard Dad pop a beer can so all the rowing must have died down.
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 17 Mar. 30 A conflict a day is about the right amount of rowing necessary to stay in close touch with the way your adolescent is developing.
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rowingadj.1

Brit. /ˈrəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < row v.1 + -ing suffix2.
Of a person that rows: using, or accustomed to using, oars to propel a boat. Also with modifying word, as hard-rowing, slow-rowing, etc.Some quots. may represent the noun used attributively.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [adjective] > rowing
rowing1648
1648 Moderate Intelligencer 10 Feb. He having privately agreed with the Rowing slaves, in stead of the Wharfs he was directed unto, put in at Maudlin Bridge.
1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 11 The rowing Crew To tempt a Fare, cloath all their Tilts in Blue.
a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) iv. 255 Erect, above the rowing chiefs, he stood.
1889 T. Roosevelt Winning of West I. i. 21 The nameless chiefs who led each his band of hard-rowing, hard-fighting henchmen across the stormy waters.
1895 W. Archer tr. F. Nansen Eskimo Life (ed. 2) ix. 141 An able-bodied young rowing-woman [Norw. roerske] in his boat, an East Greenlander named Kellitiuk, was one day seized [etc.].
1922 M. Johnston 1492 xl. 284 A canoe, of the mightiest length we had yet seen, long as a tall tree,..with twenty-five rowing Indians.
2007 P. J. Nahin Chases & Escapes iv. 133 It is still possible for a slow-rowing lady to escape.
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rowingadj.2

Brit. /ˈraʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraʊɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: row v.6, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < row v.6 + -ing suffix2.
1. Rowdy; disposed to making a row. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adjective] > rowdy noise
riotous?1456
obstreperousc1600
roaring1631
rory-tory1683
rackety1773
rowing1812
rowdyish1837
rowdy-dowy1852
rorty1899
rootin' tootin'1901
1812 Examiner 9 Nov. 719/2 The defendant..made a promise to send some rowing lads on the next Sunday.
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University I. 30 A rowing man (ow as in cow), a hard case, a spreër.
2. Quarrelling; disposed to quarrels or arguments.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelling
altercand?a1400
tuilyieing1444
quarrelling1530
rowing1944
1944 C. Stead For Love Alone 219 What they call marriage in the slums,..two rowing parents and two squalling children.
1961 Guardian 20 Oct. 7/6 The grey Depression background, the rowing parents.
1987 A. T. H. Smith Offences against Public Order 1 Public order law ranges..from the preservation of mere peace and tranquility as between rowing neighbours..to threats of an altogether different magnitude.
2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Dec. 27 Rowing couples would do well to keep their voices down.
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