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  • noun Plural form of oar.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oar.

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Examples

  • "The sweep of those oars is English, Jack, my boy."

    A Rock in the Baltic Robert Barr 1881

  • In the fourth century B.C., an Athenian trireme carried a set of thirty spare oars, which is a sign of how common shattered oars were.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • In the fourth century B.C., an Athenian trireme carried a set of thirty spare oars, which is a sign of how common shattered oars were.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Meanwhile, he rowed on, with long, leisurely strokes; and the lapping of the water round the oars was the only sound to be heard.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Beneath it, suspended by cables that appeared no thicker than gossamer, dangled a structure like a boat with many short oars; Silk's lungs had filled and emptied before he realized that the oars were the barrels of guns, and half a minute crept by before he made out the blood-red triangle on its bottom.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Beneath it, suspended by cables that appeared no thicker than gossamer, dangled a structure like a boat with many short oars; Silk's lungs had filled and emptied before he realized that the oars were the barrels of guns, and half a minute crept by before he made out the blood-red triangle on its bottom.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Those on the oars were a combination of slaves and free men working for hire.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • Lost in the sound of the oars was the last farewell of the Pilgrims.

    Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

  • The wind was favorable, and I had thought to tow them back under sail; but the wind baffled, then died away, and our progress with the oars was a snail's pace.

    Chapter 36 1904

  • The wind was favourable, and I had thought to tow them back under sail, but the wind baffled, then died away, and our progress with the oars was a snail's pace.

    The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

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