oar

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Etymology [edit]

Old English ār, from Old Norse ár.

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Noun [edit]

oar (plural oars)

  1. 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.

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  • (implement used to propel a boat): paddle

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Verb [edit]

oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)

  1. 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.

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Adjective [edit]

oar

  1. other
  2. different