Meaning

1 senses

  1. (literary)To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

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? — odexed

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  4. Tom's oar broke.

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  5. Where's the oar?

    ruГде весло? — marafon

    deWo ist das Ruder? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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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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Forms

oars, oaring, oared, oared
Base formoar · to oar
3rd person singularoars
Present participleoaring
Past simpleoared
Past participleoared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoar
he, she, itoars

Past simpleLesson

all personsoared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave oared
he, she, ithas oared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill oar

Word family

1 related words
Derivedeasy-oar

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
oakA2oasisoatoathB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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