Word: shell
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eight: the most common shell in intercollegiate rowing. An eight has eight sweep oarsmen...
...four: a shell with four sweeps...
freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worse flips him or her out of the shell...
double: a shell with two sculler...