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Rower vs Cower - What's the difference?

rower | cower |

As a noun rower

is one who rows.

As a verb cower is

to crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear or cower can be (obsolete|transitive) to cherish with care.

rower

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who rows.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
    • It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers , with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
  • 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.
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    cower

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) kuren or from Scandinavian ((etyl) . Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
    • He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
  • * Dryden
    • Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
  • * Goldsmith
    • Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
    See also
    * coward * cowardice

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cherish with care.
    • (Webster 1913)