row

[ roh ]

/ roʊ /

noun

a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.

a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.

a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.

a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.

Music. tone row.

Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.

verb (used with object)

to put in a row (often followed by up).

Idioms for row

hard/long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront: At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe.

Origin of row

1175–1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw

Words nearby row

rover boy, roving, roving commission, rovno, rovuma, row, row house, row over, row vector, rowan, rowboat

British Dictionary definitions for hard row to hoe (1 of 3)

row ¹

/ (rəʊ) /

noun

an arrangement of persons or things in a line a row of chairs

mainly British a street, esp a narrow one lined with identical houses
(capital when part of a street name)Church Row

a line of seats, as in a cinema, theatre, etc

maths a horizontal linear arrangement of numbers, quantities, or terms, esp in a determinant or matrix

a horizontal rank of squares on a chessboard or draughtboard

in a row in succession; one after the other he won two gold medals in a row

a hard row to hoe a difficult task or assignment

Word Origin for row

Old English rāw, rǣw; related to Old High German rīga line, Lithuanian raiwe strip

British Dictionary definitions for hard row to hoe (2 of 3)

row ²

/ (raʊ) /

noun

a noisy quarrel or dispute

a noisy disturbance; commotion we couldn't hear the music for the row next door

a reprimand

give someone a row informal to scold someone; tell someone off

verb

(intr often foll by with) to quarrel noisily

(tr) archaic to reprimand

Word Origin for row

C18: origin unknown

British Dictionary definitions for hard row to hoe (3 of 3)

row ³

/ (rəʊ) /

verb

to propel (a boat) by using oars

(tr) to carry (people, goods, etc) in a rowing boat

to be propelled by means of (oars or oarsmen)

(intr) to take part in the racing of rowing boats as a sport, esp in eights, in which each member of the crew pulls one oar Compare scull (def. 6)

(tr) to race against in a boat propelled by oars Oxford row Cambridge every year

noun

an act, instance, period, or distance of rowing

an excursion in a rowing boat

Derived forms of row

rower, noun rowing, noun

Word Origin for row

Old English rōwan; related to Middle Dutch roien, Middle High German rüejen, Old Norse rōa, Latin rēmus oar

Idioms and Phrases with hard row to hoe (1 of 2)

hard row to hoe

see tough row to hoe.

Idioms and Phrases with hard row to hoe (2 of 2)

row

see get one's ducks in a row; kick up a fuss (row); skid row; tough row to hoe.

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