Row, not your boat.

"Ratings row over Moore Iraq film"
---from the Drudge Report

Anybody got the wholenine on how "row" got to mean "conflict"?

row -- a noisy commotion or disturbance. 1746, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to, or a shortened form of, "rouse" a carousal or bout of drinking , also spelled "rowse" , a shortened form of carouse... From The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1995).

I thank you, my gratitude speaks,
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