rowboat
Speech parts
1. rowboat - Noun
2. rowboat - Verb
Meaning
A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
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I don't get the little ship thing. You can't show up at Mars in something the size of a rowboat. What if there are Martians? It would be so embarrassing.
An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.
At Loch Ness, he stands in their rickety rowboat and, waving his cane, recites the “Song of Creation” from “Beowulf,” capsizing the boat and dumping himself and Parini in the water.
In 1861, Governor Leland Stanford, who was inaugurated in early January 1861, had to attend his inauguration in a rowboat, which was not too far from his house in town on N street.
From a kid’s standpoint, both events were just a chance to splash around in flooded streets or maybe take a raft or a rowboat through neighborhood backyards.
A typical small rowboat can cost under US$100, $1,000 for a small speedboat, tens of thousands of dollars for a cruising sailboat, and about $2,000,000 for a Vendée Globe class sailboat.