1856 Oct. 367 The oar-stroke times the singing, The song falls with the oar, And an echo in both ringing, I thought to hear no more.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson I. ii. 165 The counting of oar strokes or other method of dead reckoning on a course across the lake.
1977 No. 54. 124 As with the oar-stroke, the rhythm in the poem punctuates the discourse of this destruction by the blank spaces in the text.