Row"en (?), n. [Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe.] [Called also rowet,
rowett, rowings, roughings.] 1. A stubble field left unplowed till late
in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes.
Mortimer.
2. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov. Eng. &
Local, U.S.]
Row"er (?), n. One who rows with an oar.
Row"ett (?), n. See Rowen.
Row"lock (? colloq. &?;), n. [For oarlock; AS. rloc, where the second
part is skin to G. loch a hole, E. lock a fastening. See Oar, and
Lock.] (Naut.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an
oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a
boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the
edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar,
or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the
oar.
Rown (?), v. i. & t. see Roun. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Row"port (?), n. (Naut.) An opening in the side of small vessels of
war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm
weather.
Rox"burgh (?; Scot. &?;), n. [From the third duke of Roxburgh
(Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books so bound.] A style
of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or
cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.