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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with oars: used in composition: as, a four-oared boat.
  • In zoology: Oar-footed: as, the oared shrew, Sorex remifer, a common aquatic shrew of Europe.
  • Specifically, copepod or copelate.
  • Totipalmate or steganopodous, as a bird's foot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition.
  • adjective Having feet adapted for swimming.
  • adjective Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); -- called also black water shrew.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having oars.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of oar., rowed.

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