Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: oar
IPA transcription: ['ɔɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: oar
    Meaning: an implement used to propel or steer a boat
Usage examples
  • Each man pulled an oar, and knew how to fight as well as row.
  • However, we may as well make him useful at once; so give him an oar.'
  • That they were all rowers as well as warriors we see from his account of the ships of Philoctetes, in which all the men at the oar are bowmen.
  • For the White Horse knew England When there was none to know; He saw the first oar break or bend, He saw heaven fall and the world end, O God, how long ago.
  • The trousers of the young men widened at the bottom, and their hands were proudly calloused by the oft-plied oar. Fishermen were under the spell of a deep and tolerant joy.
  • The pirates tugged at their oars with might and main, passing within oar's length of the wreck of the first boat, when they again raised a furious yell, straining away at their stout ash blades until they made them bend like willow wands.
  • No one took notice of me, only the bow oar saying, "Is that you, Jim? Keep your head down." But Silver, from the other boat, looked sharply over and called out to know if that were me; and from that moment I began to regret what I had done.