Meaning of rowboatful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a rowboat.

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳!"”

“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⟳.”

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