Definition of Rowable

1. a. That may be rowed, or rowed upon.

Definition of Rowable

1. Adjective. Capable of being rowed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rowable

1. row [adj] - See also: row

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowable

rovibrational
rovibrationally
rovibronic
roving
rovingly
rovingness
rovings
row
row-equivalence
row-equivalent
row house
row houses
row of bricks
row space
row spaces
rowable (current term)
rowan
rowan tree
rowanberries
rowanberry
rowans
rowboat
rowboats
rowdedow
rowdedows
rowdie
rowdier
rowdies
rowdiest
rowdily

Literary usage of Rowable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... we owe : Whether the sea receiv'd into the shore, hat from the north, the navie safe doth store, kingly worke ; or that long barren fen 'nee rowable, ..."

2. Manipulus vocabulorum: a rhyming dictionary of the English language by Peter Levens (1867)
"Poems, ed. Morris, C. 186. Route, v. to put to flight, 228 38 Hove, v. to rob, 179 3 Rove, to, about, 179 4 Roving, part. 43 9 rowable, adj. 3 11 Rowe, v. ..."

3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1887)
"Three qualities are especially demanded of the boat : that it should draw little water, that it should turn easily, and that it should be rowable by one ..."

4. Venice by Mortimer Menpes, Dorothy Menpes (1904)
"It must draw but little water ; it must turn easily ; and it must be rowable by one oarsman only. To secure this, the hull is built of light thin boards, ..."

5. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"The cat-rigged boat has the advantage of being rowable, in case of a calm. Thole pins can be put into the gunwale for the purpose. ..."

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