oar
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old English ār, from Old Norse ár.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Audio (US) (file) - enPR: ôr, IPA: /oʊr/, /ɔː(r)/, X-SAMPA: /O:(r)/
- Homophones: or, ore, o'er, aw (in non-rhotic accents), awe (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
Noun [edit]
oar (plural oars)
- An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
Synonyms [edit]
- (implement used to propel a boat): paddle
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
implement used to row a boat
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Verb [edit]
oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)
- To row; to propel with oars.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Translations [edit]
to row — see row
Anagrams [edit]
West Frisian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
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