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oar /ɔː /noun1A 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 abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your |