1. Worthy; honorable; deserving. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Suitable; adequate; fit. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.