rower
One who rows.
Noun
- 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. - 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VI, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
- 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. - 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward...
- 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. - 1988, Richard Allen Winett, Ageless athletes, page...
Origin
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”).