What is "rowers"

Usage examples of "rowers".

Because trh outrigger could maintain its projection width when the hull narrowed aft, there were 31 thranite rowers to 27 thalamites and 27 zygites per side.

The rowers, thirsty and exhausted, shipped their oars and drank water, rinsed themselves with seawater and sat to eat, wondering whether their prince would put them back on the oars in the cool of the night.

He squinted and tried to see, through the whipping, gloomy spray forward and below, whether the rowers were still able to work.

The vessel would shudder as if it were being twisted apart, then in another flash of white light Madoc would see the prow smash into another wall of water, and the next flash would show cataracts of brine rushing from the forecastle and back among the rowers like a mountain river.

He called an order for the rowers to back water, and the command was passed back through his fleet.

When the sails were down, the rowers pulled steadily, shining with sweat, their arms and shoulders corded with steely muscle.

However, five men on an oar meant that at the commencement of the sweep the rowers had to stand, falling back onto the seat as they pulled.

The door at the river end of the entrance hallway was open, and she could see that there were rowers already out on the river.

Out on the river, one of the Georgetown eights came sliding upstream, the boat seeming to move in a jerking motion with each stroke, losing a little way to the current each time the rowers reached for the next stroke.

A pair of rowers came out of the boathouse carrying a slick-looking two-man shell and entertained her with their efforts to drop the boat into the water and board it before the current could take it downstream.

There were usually more rowers out, but this current was on the verge of meanness.

They were watching several rowers milling about the boat landing, all of them anxious to get out on the river for the last hour of daylight.

Vann looked around at the rowers, taking in the glossy, expensive-looking boats and then casting a dubious eye at the ramshackle club building.

They were silent for a while, watching the Potomac and the rowers and listening to the sounds of the traffic high up on the bridge above them.

Presumably rowers got up from their benches when it was necessary to adjust the sail.