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OARING
Verb
oaring
present participle of oar
Anagrams
• Girona, agrion, ignaro, onagri, origan
Source: Wiktionary
OAR
Oar, n Etym: [AS. ar; akin to Icel. ar, Dan. aare, Sw. ĂĄra; 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.
Note: 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 car.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. Oar cock (Zoöl), 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 which rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing.
– To put in one's oar, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited.
– To ship the oars, to place them in the rowlocks.
– To toss the oars, To peak the oars, to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
– To trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat.
– To unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.
Oar, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Oared; p. pr. & vb. n. Oaring.]
Definition: To row. "Oared himself." Shak. Oared with laboring arms. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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