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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rowing boat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few minutes later I heard the splash of oars, and a rowing boat came into view manned by three crewmen.
▪ A scruffy card showed a rowing boat floating towards a bank.
▪ At the water's edge a rowing boat was beached.
▪ Eventually they grow tired of this and decide to take the little wooden rowing boat out on to the lake.
▪ They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows, then took a rowing boat on the River Dee.
WordNet
rowing boat

n. a rowboat

Usage examples of "rowing boat".

He gathered all the sheets into an oilcloth bag and lowered them out of the window into the rowing boat, feeling pleased.

He was deep in conversation with a man handing bundles of clothes, baskets of bottles and a few crates of battered fruit down to a lad standing in a broad, flat-bottomed rowing boat tied to the stubby posts on the dock.

There was a rowing boat out in the middle of the little loch, but he couldn't see anybody in it.

They came to a halt at the water's edge, and lowered their bounty into a small rowing boat.

By eight-thirty we were out on Itchenor Creek in the chilly morning in his rented rowing boat, throwing lines with maggots on hooks over the side.

The Grenadines--lumps of rock: not even a rowing boat could hide among them.