We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of oar in English
Usage of oar in English
1
Keen said between strokes on his oar, 'Do you know it, sir?'
2
The whale-boat with passengers for the shore; Wild at the steering oar
3
The sea tosses up our losses, the torn seine, the broken oar.
4
The oar snapped in two and we fell forward against the wall.
5
The plash of a light oar was heard;- aboattouched the vessel.
6
Then, in the far distance, Grenfell glimpsed the flash of an oar.
7
See this piece of rope; and here is part of an oar.
8
Would you still hold the oar while I try to shape it?
9
They sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar.
10
Trigo put in his oar and uttered a number of preposterous statements.
11
Otoo saw to it that he always pulled stroke-oar in my boat.
12
The half-caste peaked and socketed his oar, and looked at the officer.
13
Watkins relieved the Dutchman at the steering oar, and I rejoined Dorothy.
14
But every stroke of his oar was active persistence in his heresy.
15
He ran a big oar through the sleeves and waved it wildly.
16
He set aside his oar and tied the boat to a piling.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Oar through the time
Oar across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common