FromEnglishOld Aramaic.

oar

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forOld Aramaic.

FromMiddle Englishore(“oar”), fromOld Englishār, fromProto-West Germanic*airu, fromProto-Germanic*airō(“oar”). Cognate withOld Norseár.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ɔː/
• (General American)enPR:ôr,IPA^(key):/oɹ/

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• (non-rhotic,without thehorse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key):/oə/
• (rhotic,without thehorse–hoarse merger)enPR:ōr,IPA^(key):/o(ː)ɹ/
• Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones:ore,o'er;or(horse–hoarse merger);aw,awe(non-rhotic,horse–hoarse merger)

oar (pluraloars)

1. A type oflever used topropel a boat, having a flatblade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in arowlock atop thegunwale, whereby arower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeatedstrokes against the water'sresistance, thus moving the boat.

   Synonym:paddle

   • 19 October 1979,Madness, “Night Boat to Cairo”,Suggs (lyrics)‎^[1]:

     Theoar snaps in his hand
     Before he reaches dry land
     But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
     Just pokes at wet sand
     With anoar in his hand
     Floats off down the river Nile
     Floats off down the river Nile...

2. Anoarsman; arower.

   He is a goodoar.

3. (zoology) An oar-likeswimmingorgan of variousinvertebrates.

oar (third-person singular simple presentoars,present participleoaring,simple past and past participleoared)

1. (literary) Torow; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
   • 1866, Thomas S. Muir,Barra Head, page52:

     The weather was fine, and whilstoaring along I would fain have landed on the islands between; but fearful of a change, and already half worn-out by my previous trail, I let them go by with the comforting resolve of turning them up on some future occasion.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake,Gormenghast, London:Eyre & Spottiswoode,→OCLC:

     Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about tooar their way into some fabulous ocean.

   • 1996, Peter J. Bowler,Life's Splendid Drama:

     In Nopsca's theory, flight evolved as a means of running more quickly over the ground: "Birds originated from bipedal, long-tailed cursorial reptiles which during runningoared along in the air by flapping their free anterior extremities."

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FromOld Frisianother.

oar

1. other
2. different

This adjective needs aninflection-table template.

• feroarje

• “oar (I)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011