Rowboatful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rowboatful is a noun meaning Enough to fill a rowboat.
Meaning
Enough to fill a rowboat.
Example Sentences
During a recent midwestern flood, CBS' Edward R. Murrow reports, a rowboatful of volunteer rescue workers spied a man perched atop an almost completely submerged Tin Lizzie, crying, "Help! Help!"
There were a few other families also picnicking and a rowboatful of young people in bathing suits were amusing themselves, sometimes rowing and sometimes stopping to dive out of the boat and climb back again amid cheerful shrieks and laughter.
Since that tumultuous evening in 1958, the British public has been treated to many wonderful sights: parades at Easter time from Trafalgar Square to the nuclear laboratories at Alder- maston, the Labour party torn in two by a vigorous ban-the-bomb movement, defiant rowboatfuls of young pacifists at the Holy Loch, Bertrand Russell squatting in front of the Ministry of Defence and going to jail for his trouble.
Word Forms
- rowboatfuls
- rowboatsful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boatful, launchful, boilerful, poolful, pondful, canoeload.
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