Meaning

3 senses
  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.

    Ruder

    весло́vesló

    весло́vesló

  2. An oarsman; a rower.

    He is a good oar.

  3. An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

More definitions
  • an implement used to propel or steer a boat

Examples

29 sentences
  1. I need to buy a new a pair of oars for my rowboat.

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  2. I need to buy a new a set of oars for my rowboat.

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  3. Where are the oars?

    ruГде вёсла?

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  4. Tom's oar broke.

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  5. Where's the oar?

    ruГде весло?

    deWo ist das Ruder?

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Translations

9 languages
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By meaning 1
implement used to row a boat:
Русский
By meaning 1
implement used to row a boat:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
implement used to row a boat:

Origin

From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from

From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.

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