boat-race

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boat-race - participate in a boat race

run - compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"

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He was honorable, in the second place, as having won the highest popular distinction which the educational system of modern England can bestow--he had pulled the stroke-oar in a University boat-race. Add to this, that nobody had ever seen him read any thing but a newspaper, and that nobody had ever known him to be backward in settling a bet--and the picture of this distinguished young Englishman will be, for the present, complete.

"Must you always be pulling in a boat-race, or flying over a high jump?

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See the chaps in a boat-race; look at the fellers in a fight; aye, look at a dawg killing rats--which is it wins?