rowing boat [roh-ing] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun British. rowboat. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of rowing boat First recorded in 1810–20 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for rowing boat Historical Examples of rowing boat
All round us were the lights of bigger craft, but no rowing-boat could I see.
Guy Boothby
For about ten shillings they would hire a rowing-boat for three days.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
Frank Fox
The motion of a wave in a moving medium may be likened to that of a rowing-boat on a river.
Oliver Lodge
Hippolyte is going to get ready the rowing-boat which was tied at the end of the landing-stage.
A. E. W. Mason
At the turn of the river, from the direction of the town, a rowing-boat appeared.
Feodor Sologub
British Dictionary definitions for rowing boat rowing boat noun mainly British a small boat propelled by one or more pairs of oarsUsual US and Canadian word: rowboat Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012