bow-oar

Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat.

Burlesques 2006

Capitaine, that well-known, trim figure, the bow-oar; how he tugs, and with what a will!

Roundabout Papers 2006

Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

The bow-oar gives a rakish air to the bows o 'the dark-blue craft.

Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

Toffy rowed the bow-oar now, and Purvis, who knew every turn of the river, took the tiller-ropes.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Turning to him who pulled the bow-oar: "Stop pullin 'a bit, Tom," said he, "stop pullin '."

The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family A. R. [Illustrator] Waud

"I wish you could manage to enjoy it," said Max, "without missing every other stroke, and digging me so unmercifully in the back with your oar-handle; if you can't, I must ask you to change seats with me, and let me take the bow-oar."

The Island Home Richard Archer

Browne had the bow-oar, and putting his whole force into every stroke, was pulling like a giant.

The Island Home Richard Archer

The bow-oar of the German boat, who had a blood-stained bandage round his head, also stared.

The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

Rebecca to the bow-oar in place of Ann Pengelly, that had been clipping the stroke short in practice: but after that speech she never gave the woman another thought.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903