oar
/oɹ/ nom B2En français : rame, aviron
- 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.
- An oarsman; a rower. · He is a good oar.
- An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
Pluriel oars
Dans la bibliothèque
While he had been absorbed in thought, they had shipped their oars and hoisted sail; the boat was now moving with the wind.
Where were the oars?
When I fail it’ll be time enough to put your oar in.”
She might think I was putting my oar in and I promised not to do that.”
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