What is "rowboats"

Usage examples of "rowboats".

We have a couple of rowboats, and maybe you can hire a little sailing skiff.

There was a little wharf, at which the Seaburys kept a couple of rowboats, and, as six were too many to go into one craft, Nellie and Jerry occupied the smaller, while Bob and Ned, Olivia and Rose, got into the other.

At that moment a shrill whistle sounded just behind the rowboats and the girls turned around to see what it was.

He tied the two rowboats together, the other boys helping him, and then anchored them with a small, spare kedge he carried on his craft.

So in the midst of the attempt to order the steamboats into a convoy for the passage upstream, two big rowboats swung out into the river, with six men pulling at the oars of each and another dozen or so under arms, many of them foolishly standing up and huzzahing their own bravado.

Sure enough, one of the rowboats, with its pilot yelling for a steamboat to get out of the way, tried to insert itself between the big riverboats.

Meanwhile, rowboats threw lines to help draw the limping, smoldering Prosper toward refuge.