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(), n[AS. r; akin to Icel. r, Dan. aare, Sw. ra; perh. akin to E. row, v. Cf. Rowlock.] 1. An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom. An oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a kind of fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of the boat. 2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar. 3. (Zol.) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. Oar cock (Zol.), the water rail. [Prov. Eng.] Spoon oar, an oar having the blade so curved as to afford a better hold upon the water in rowing. To boat the oars, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat. To feather the oars. See under Feather., v. t. To lie on the oars, to cease pulling, raising the oars out of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest. To muffle the oars, to put something round that part w Oar v. t. & i.[imp. & p. p.Oared (); p. pr. & vb. n.Oaring.] To row. "Oared himself." Shak. Oared with laboring arms. Pope. スポンサード リンク
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