oarage

English

Etymology

oar +‎ -age

Noun

oarage (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
   • 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers:

     The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.

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2. (archaic, poetic) A sweeping motion that resembles rowing.
   • 1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 184:

     […] the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.

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3. Equipment used for rowing.
   • 1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 49:

     With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]

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Anagrams

• agorae