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LABORING OAR

Definition: LABORING OAR

LABORING OAR

1. The oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: LABORING OAR

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agent	Bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.
Exertion	Labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Anagrams: LABORING OAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-r"
	-3 letters: baronial, bigaroon, laboring, larrigan.
	-4 letters: arraign, bargain, barring, blaring, bologna, garboil, granola, logania, obligor, roaring.
	-5 letters: aboral, agnail, agonal, airbag, albino, analog, angora, argali, arroba, baaing, bagnio, bailor, baling, baring, barong, barrio, booing, boring, brogan, gabion, gaboon, garron, globin, gloria, goblin, gooral, lagoon, logion, looing, narial, oaring, oblong, onagri, oorali, orbing, organa, origan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-r"
	+4 letters: overelaborating.
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Alternative Orthography: LABORING OAR

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 42 4F 52 49 4E 47 4F 41 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01000010 01001111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001111 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#79 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0042 004F 0052 0049 004E 0047 004F 0041 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46353649524348412493552

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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