four-oar

Like many other modern pleasure-yachts, the Dobryna, in addition to her four-oar, was fitted with a fast-going little steam-launch, its screw being propelled, on the Oriolle system, by means of a boiler, small but very effective.

Off on a Comet 2003

Into this cove the Dobryna was duly signaled, and as soon as she was safely moored, she lowered her four-oar, and Count

Off on a Comet 2003

Timascheff wended his way down to a small creek, and took his seat in the stern of a light four-oar that had been awaiting his return; this was immediately pushed off from shore, and was soon alongside

Off on a Comet 2003

But we wosn't alone; lots of toppers, in 'Ouse-Boat, or four-oar, or punt,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various

Mammas and daughters agreed in looking upon us as undeniable partners in the ballroom, while the sporting men booked us as safe for getting up a creditable four-oar, with a strong probability of finding a light weight willing to risk his neck and reputation at a hurdle-race.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

Branling at length found a vent for the _vis inertiæ_ in putting us all, with the exception of Mr Sydney Dawson, whom he declared to be so stiff in the back that he had no hope of him, into training for a four-oar; and the surgeon and myself set off in his gig for B----, to purchase materials for cricket.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

Many a summer afternoon have I rowed joyously with these same maidens beneath these steep and garlanded shores; many a time have they pulled the heavy four-oar, with me as coxswain at the helm, -- the said patient steersman being oft-times insulted by classical allusions from rival boats, satirically comparing him to an indolent Venus drawn by doves, while the oarswomen in turn were likened to Minerva with her feet upon

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Klaus clambered in, and the white-straked four-oar surged across the bay, rocking a little as the boys pulled out of stroke.

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

I have recounted elsewhere how my father won the rowing championship of the Mediterranean with his four-oar, in 1866.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

The boat, a four-oar, had to be built on special lines.

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892