Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the form or serving the purpose of an oar.
- Having oars; equipped with oars.
Wiktionary
- adj. Like an oar
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the form or the use of an oar.
Etymologies
- oar + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Irene, Smash, and Amolde joined them in the anteroom. oary seemed unperturbed.”
“ Came, and shook thro 'heaven his pennons oary, before me,”
“ Swept with fir-blades oary the fair level azure of”
“ She might not aim to pass it; oary-wing'd alike”
“In one place it is known as "Cam a teerie arrie ma torry;" in another, "Come a theory, oary mathorie;" in yet another,”
“Swept with fir-blades oary the fair level azure of Ocean.”
“Came, and shook thro 'heaven his pennons oary, before me,”
“Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.”
“Hyder 8 tent exhibited nothing very extraordi-* oary and magnificent, except a rich Periian car - pet fpread on the ground, and held down by four inaily iilver weights at the corners, fomething in form refembling fugar loaves.”
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