Category:Oar

Oar, n etym: [as. ar; akin to icel. ar, dan. aare, sw. åra; perh. Akin to e. row, v. Cf. Rowlock.]

1. 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.

Note: an oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a kind of Fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of the boat.

2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good car.

3. (zoöl.)

Defn: an oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. Oar cock (zoöl), the water rail. [prov. Eng.] -- spoon oar, an oar having the Blade so curved as to afford a better hold upon the water in rowing. -- to boat the oars, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat. -- to feather the oars. See under feather., v. t. -- to lie on the oars, to cease pulling, raising the oars out of Water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be Idle; to rest. -- to muffle the oars, to put something round that part which rests In the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing. -- to put in one's oar, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a Person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited. -- to ship the oars, to place them in the rowlocks. -- to toss the oars, to peak the oars, to lift them from the Rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the Bottom of the boat. -- to trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of The boat. -- to unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.

Oar Oar, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Oared; p. pr. & vb. n. Oaring.]

Defn: to row. "oared himself." Shak. Oared with laboring arms. Pope.