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On an earlier run, taking in views of the Mumbai Sea Link suspension bridge, and the lighthouse marking a western entry point to the city, we see a lone figure in a jute hat on a rowboat.
A true rowboat or sculling boat has an easy motion through the water and, most important, glides between strokes.
A special type of rowboat , used solely in competitive racing, is the single-, dorbleight-oaredt-oared racing shell, a long frail craft, specially equipped with seats that enable the rower or rowers to put maximum power into each sweep of the long scull or oar.
In 2016 Vikander had starring roles in the modern action thriller Jason Bourne and The Light Between Oceans, in which she portrayed an anguished wife forced to face the fact that the infant whom she and her husband (played by Michael Fassbender) had rescued from an adrift rowboat years earlier has a living mother who believes that her daughter perished.
Saltwater fishing is done from a beach, off rocks, from a pier, or from a boat, which may vary in size from a rowboat in inland waters to oceangoing craft of considerable size.
In terms of open space, it is well worth the climb up St Giles Hill for panoramic views over the city, while Oram's Arbour, in the city centre, is desperately pretty, or you could simply stroll the towpath of the Itchen Navigation, or hire a rowboat if you prefer.
I was quite satisfied with myself, with my eyeliner mustache, my memorized lines in Latin, and my entrance: a rowboat lit by two flaming torches carried me, at dusk, across a lake to the theatre.
Boating, a rather all-embracing term, is becoming more popular, whether engaged in with a rowboat , a canoe, an outboard motorboat, a twelve-cylinder speedster, a sailboat big enough for four people who have been on an eighteen-day diet for a year and a half, or an ocean-going yacht.
On a floor in a hallway, he laid out his sail, which had been stitched by a friend and had the profile of a rowboat.
His job is to sit at the starting line with other stakeboat men, each in a tethered rowboat , & hold on to one of the shells until the starting signal.
Tom gets a kick out of it, although I'm not sure he realizes that one day, when he's old and weak and Jimmy's the starting q.b., we'll have to bring Tom to the Cape and push him out into the Atlantic in a rowboat with no paddles.
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The primary grammatical function of "rowboat" is that of a noun . As indicated by Ludwig, it refers to a small boat propelled by oars. Examples show it used to describe scenes, activities, and even as part of metaphorical expressions.
Expression frequency: Very common
