Word Finder - oar

definition

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 .

definition

An oarsman; a rower.

example

He is a good oar.

definition

An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

definition

To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

Then we were each compelled to pull an oar.

He might have run past them by the use of sail and oar to escape, but with the true spirit of a Norse warrior he refused to flee, and turned to give battle with the eleven ships immediately about him.

The rowlock holds the oar in place during the rowing stroke.

In an opener to the regatta season, the LRGSBC senior sweep oar squad won all of their events.

Our appeal has been successful, beyond oar most sanguine expectations.

Tidal conditions were recorded for the complete year using a boulder-filled wooden barrel with half an oar attached, suitably calibrated.

I took up an oar and tried to quell the mutiny; I cried no!

Letters exist written by Colbert to the judges requiring them to sentence to the oar as many criminals as possible, including all those who had been condemned to death; and the convict once chained to the bench, the expiration of his sentence was seldom allowed to bring him release.

Richard Dunn is in the GB senior sweep oar squad where he hopes to secure a seat in the Olympic eight for Sydney.

The office of marshal in the high court is represented in this court by a serjeant, who also bears a silver oar.

The principal officers of the court in subordination to the judge were the registrar (an office which always points to a connexion with canon or civil law), and the marshal, who acted as the maritime sheriff, having for his baton of office a silver oar.

In 1818 the Lehigh Navigation Company was formed to improve the navigation of the Lehigh river from its confluence with the Delaware to Coalport, and two years later coal was successfully carried down the Lehigh and Delaware rivers to Philadelphia in " arks " or rectangular boxes, two or more of which were joined together and steered by a long oar.

This counterbalances the push of the single oar which would tend to direct the boat to the left.

The second method is to increase the arc of the shorter oar to achieve the same cord length illustrated by the red line.

The vessels are steered by means of a side rudder in form of a large oar.

Oar power could be increased only be increasing the number of oar power could be increased only be increasing the number of oarsmen.

No oars apart from the steering oar would of been used on the ship.

Force analysis of the rowing stroke employing two different oar grips.

Opposite to him sat his testy friend, Isaac Dorkin, pulling the stroke oar.

Uluch Ali then retreated with sail and oar, bringing most of his division off in good order.

The gondolier stands on a poppa at the stern with his face towards the bow, and propels the gondola with a single oar.

He also explained that all wings act upon a common principle, and that they present oblique, kite-like surfaces to the air, through which they pass much in the same way that an oar passes through water in sculling.