The Clue
Toils on a trireme (4 letter answer)
The Answer
ROWS
Tags
Notes
The answer ROWS is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.
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To-dos
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Scraps
Sculls
Shindies
Spats
Squabbles
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Wrangles
Column crossers
Competes at Henley
Counterparts of columns
Dust-ups
Garden divisions
Grid parts
Has the oars
Minds the cox
Moves a shell
Noisy to-dos
Noisy fights
Noisy quarrels
Obeys the coxswain
Propels, as a boat
Propels a dinghy
Propels a gig
Propels a wherry
Rank and file
Seating sections
Sets of pews
Spreadsheet components
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Tetris objectives
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Theater seating
Participates in a regatta, perhaps
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Definition
ROW as a noun:
1. an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; "a row of chairs"
2. (quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup) = an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
3. a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"
4. (course, row) = (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"
5. a linear array of numbers side by side
6. a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"
7. (rowing, row) = the act of rowing as a sport
ROW as a verb:
1. propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"