oar

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see also: OAR

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Pronunciation

• • (RP) IPA: /ɔː/
  • (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /oə/
  • (America) enPR: ôr, IPA: /ɔɹ/
  • (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: ōr, IPA: /o(ː)ɹ/

Noun

oar (plural oars)

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat .
2. An oarsman; a rower.

   He is a good oar.

3. (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Synonyms

• (implement used to propel a boat) paddle

Translations

• French: rame, aviron
• German: Ruder
• Italian: remo
• Portuguese: remo
• Russian: весло́
• Spanish: remo

Verb

oar (oars, present participle oaring; past and past participle oared)

1. (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

     Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

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OAR

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Noun

oar

1. Initialism of original aspect ratio

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