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Definition of Rowers
1. rower [n] - See also: rower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowers
Literary usage of Rowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The system of side planking with a view to the protection of the rowers dates
from a very early period, ae may be seen in someof the Egyptian ..."
2. A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis (1914)
"The rowers' Benches of a Trireme.—With her full complement of rowers the benches of
... Behind their bulwarks the rowers can see little of what is passing. ..."
3. A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis (1914)
"The rowers' Benches of a Trireme.—With her full complement of rowers the benches of
... Behind their bulwarks the rowers can see little of what is passing. ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1888)
"Our trireme the ' Victory ' had, beneath her deck, benches for full nine-score
rowers, in three tiers or banks. On the lowest bank, fifty- six rowers or ..."
5. British Manufacturing Industries by George Phillips Bevan, Bevan, George Phillips, 1829?-1889 (1876)
"... that the rowers were placed in rows or tiers above each other, and the great
effort on which much ingenuity has been displayed, seems to be to account ..."
6. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1842)
"... t: the archers profiting by these commanding positions to rake the enemy's
decks, as they bore down upon a hostile galley, and to disable the rowers. ..."
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