pair-oar

College, spending your leisure-time in an eight-or a pair-oar, and stirring up the muddy shallows of the Cam, as you did to some purpose, I cannot believe that any premonitions of the heights of celebrity to which you would some day attain disturbed your mind.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 Various

Everyone who has rowed knows that pair-oar rowing is the most difficult, as it is the most fascinating, form of the art.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

His eye had been quick to sight the pair-oar rowing by.

Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

Jeffreys enjoyed it as much as he, and no one, seeing the boy and his tutor together in their pair-oar, would have imagined that the broader of the two was that ungainly lout who had once been an object of derision in the Bolsover meadows.

A Dog with a Bad Name Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Fairbairn pooh-poohed both objections, and finally carried off his man to the river, where his unwonted appearance in the stern of the schoolhouse pair-oar caused no little astonishment and merriment among the various early visitors who usually frequented the waters of the

The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Instead of going up the river in a pair-oar or a four, he now went up in a sculling boat or a canoe, and seemed to enjoy himself quite as much.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

As the reader has heard, the new captain had already been out once or twice "on the quiet" in the pair-oar, and during these expeditions he had learned all he knew of the art of navigation.

The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

But Fairbairn was loth to give up his idea; so he went to Mr Parrett, and asked him if he would mind running with the schoolhouse pair-oar during the next morning's spin, and watching the steering of the new captain.

The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

He had already been down several times in pair-oar and four-oar boats, with an old oar to pull stroke, and another to steer and coach the young idea, but he was not satisfied with these essays.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

He was now in his third year of residence, had won the pair-oar race, and had pulled seven in the great yearly match with Cambridge, and by constant hard work had managed to carry the St. Ambrose boat up to the fifth place on the river.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859