Word: shell
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double: a shell with two scullers...
eight: the most common shell in intercollegiate rowing. An eight has eight sweep oarsmen...
engine room: the middle sweeps in an eight. The biggest and strongest rowers sit in the middle of the shell and from that position they give the shell its biggest bursts of power...
...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...