Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form or serving the purpose of an oar.
- Having oars; equipped with oars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form or the use of an oar.
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- adjective Like an
oar
Etymologies
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Examples
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Irene, Smash, and Amolde joined them in the anteroom. oary seemed unperturbed.
Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010
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Swept with fir-blades oary the fair level azure of
Poems and Fragments 2006
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She might not aim to pass it; oary-wing'd alike
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Came, and shook thro 'heaven his pennons oary, before me,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Swept with fir-blades oary the fair level azure of
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Came, and shook thro 'heaven his pennons oary, before me,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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She might not aim to pass it; oary-wing'd alike
Poems and Fragments 2006
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In one place it is known as "Cam a teerie arrie ma torry;" in another, "Come a theory, oary mathorie;" in yet another,
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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Swept with fir-blades oary the fair level azure of Ocean.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Came, and shook thro 'heaven his pennons oary, before me,
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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