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单词 oar
释义

oar

/ɔː /
noun
1A pole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water: she pulled hard on the oars...
  • As well as traditional rowing oars and sculls, they manufacture oars for surf boat rowing, and transatlantic teams.
  • I love being on the water, I love the sound the water makes and the oars on the boat, all of those things.
  • Organised by the Gauteng Dragon Boat Association, long boats and oars will be provided for participants who do not have their own team boat.
1.1An oarsman; a rower: I was stroke oar and John was in the bow...
  • The crew suddenly lost their stroke oar to eligibility issues, and Erickson was back to the drawing board to find a line-up.
  • He is considered by many as the best ‘stroke’ oar in the long history of lightweight rowing at Harvard.
  • The person on the port side all the way aft is the stroke oar, the rower who sets the pace that everyone else must match.
verb [with object]
Propel with or as if with oars; row: oaring the sea like madmen [no object, with adverbial of direction]: oaring through the weeds...
  • They're oared to the docks where a Guild Estimator boards and examines the cargo, noting its quality and determining the number of lots that will go up for sale.
  • In May, foods and prayers are offered to Tin Hau, the goddess of fishermen, and the following month the brightly decorated Dragon Boats are oared swiftly in races through Hong Kong's waters.
  • But everything progressed smoothly and he oared his canopy slow and smooth on the calm river, along with many others, all dreaming to reach the pinnacle of success through self-actualization.

Phrases

put (or stick) one's oar in

rest (lay) on one's oars

Derivatives

oared

/ɔːd / adjective
[in combination]: four-oared sculls

oarless

adjective ...
  • Floating in an oarless boat, they eventually arrived at the southern coast of France.
  • His life was spared because his daughter Hypsipyle set him adrift in an oarless boat.
  • It is the place where an oarless boat full of refugees from the Holy Land washed ashore not long after Jesus was crucified.

Origin

Old English ār, of Germanic origin; related to Danish and Norwegian åre.

Rhymes

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