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rower

noun
/ˈɹəʊ.ə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row + -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English rōwend (“rower”).

  1. inherited from rower

Definitions

  1. One who rows.

    • It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
    • Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men’s fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.

  2. A rowing machine.

    • Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.

The neighborhood

Derived

pararower

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rower. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rower. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at rower

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA