rower

From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English rōwend (“rower”).

rower (plural rowers)

One who rows.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VI, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
  It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
- 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 89:
  Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men’s fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.
A rowing machine.
- 1988, Richard Allen Winett, Ageless athletes, page 65:
  Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.

person who rows a boat

Azerbaijani: avarçı, avarçəkən, kürəkçi
Bulgarian: гребец (bg) m (grebec)
Catalan: remador m, remer (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 划手 (huáshǒu)
Czech: veslař (cs) m
Esperanto: remisto sg
Finnish: soutaja (fi)
French: rameur (fr)
Galician: remador m, remeiro m
Georgian: მენიჩბე (ka) (meničbe)
German: Ruderer (de) m
Greek: κωπηλάτης (el) m (kopilátis)
Ancient: ἐρέτης m (erétēs)
Hebrew: חוֹתֵר (he) m (khoter), מְשׁוֹטָאי m (meshotay)
Hungarian: evezős (hu)
Irish: iomróir m
Italian: rematore (it) m, rematrice f
Latin: rēmex m
Macedonian: веслач m (veslač)
Maori: kaihoe
Norwegian:
Bokmål: roer m
Old English: rōwend m
Ottoman Turkish: كوركجی (kürekci)
Polish: wioślarz (pl) m, wioślarka (pl) f, bębniarz (pl) m (of a rowing race crew)
Portuguese: remador (pt) m, remeiro (pt) m
Romanian: vâslaș (ro) m, vâslitor (ro) m, canotor (ro) m
Russian: гребе́ц (ru) (grebéc)
Spanish: remero (es) m, remador m, boga (es) m or f, bogador m, alier (es) m (desus.)
Tagalog: manggagaod
Turkish: kürekçi (tr)

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