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means A person who propels a boat by pulling a set of oars through the water.

from Straightforward Old English stock — 'row' comes from rowan, meaning to propel a boat with oars, itself tracing back to an ancient root shared with 'rudder' and the Latin-adjacent idea of steering or paddling. Add the agent suffix '-er,' meaning 'one who does the thing,' and you get 'rower': one who rows. No myth, no twist — just one of the oldest, plainest verbs in the language quietly growing a job title.