EGAVE

oar

About 1.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Old Aramaic.
  2. noun A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
  3. noun An oarsman; a rower.
    He is a good oar.
  4. noun An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  5. verb To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

Similar words

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Often followed by

and in to or of is was with on

Word family

oared oaring oars

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