Oar

[ɔː] or [ɔr]

Definition

(noun.) an implement used to propel or steer a boat.

Checker: Wade--From WordNet

Definition

(n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

(n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.

(n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.

(v. t. & i.) To row.

Editor: Murdoch

Definition

n. a light pole with a flat feather or spoon-shaped end (the blade) for propelling a boat: an oar-like appendage for swimming as the antenn?of an insect or crustacean &c.: an oarsman.—v.t. to impel by rowing.—v.i. to row.—n. Oar′age oars collectively.—adj. Oared furnished with oars.—ns. Oar′lap a rabbit with its ears standing out at right-angles to the head; Oar′-lock a rowlock; Oars′man one who rows with an oar; Oars′manship skill in rowing.—adj. Oar′y having the form or use of oars.—Boat oars to bring the oars inboard; Feather oars to turn the blades parallel to the water when reaching back for another stroke; Lie on the oars to cease rowing without shipping the oars: to rest take things easily: to cease from work; Put in one's oar to give advice when not wanted; Ship or Unship oars to place the oars in the rowlocks or to take them out.

Typist: Wilhelmina

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of handling oars, portends disappointments for you, inasmuch as you will sacrifice your own pleasure for the comfort of others. To lose an oar, denotes vain efforts to carry out designs satisfactorily. A broken oar represents interruption in some anticipated pleasure.

Checker: Wendy

Unserious Contents or Definition

A popular device for catching crabs.

Typed by Edmund

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Editor: Paula

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