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Definition of Sliding seat
1. Noun. Rower's seat that slides fore and aft.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliding Seat
Literary usage of Sliding seat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1888)
"As a second advantage, the sliding seat decidedly relieves the abdominal ...
It is often remarked that the 'times ' performed by sliding-seat crews are not ..."
2. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1891)
"As a second advantage, the sliding seat decidedly relieves the abdominal ...
It is often remarked that the ' times' performed by sliding-seat crews are not ..."
3. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate, Edmond Warre, Robert Harvey Humfrey Mason (1889)
"As a second advantage, the sliding seat decidedly relieves the abdominal ...
It is often remarked that the ' times' performed by sliding-seat crews are not ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The sliding seat seems to have been the invention of an American oarsman, who
fixed one ... In 1873 the sliding seat was adopted by the crews rowing in the ..."
5. Training, in Theory and Practice by Archibald Maclaren (1874)
"THE mechanism of the sliding-seat is very simple. It consists essentially of two
runners or rails formed of glass, brass, hard wood, or other suitable ..."
6. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"That with a sufficiently long stroke the body is not bent either forward or
backward nearly as far as without the sliding seat 3, That as the foree exerted ..."
7. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"... Sliding-seat—Instruction in rowing—Eton papers — Stroke —
Sculling—Canoeing—Swimming. As has been already stated, of the three most popular
pastimes, ..."
8. The Complete Oarsman by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann (1908)
"Body swinging forward and carrying slide sliding seat 4^ No. 5. Blade beginning
to turn off feather sliding seat 46 No ..."
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