Oar

Definition: Oar

Oar

Noun

1. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "oar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Slang in 1811

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OAR

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Action

Be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with; (meddle).

Activity

Have a hand in; (act in); take an active part, put in one's oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head about, intrigue; agitate.

Agent

Bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.

Curvature

Adjective: curved; Verb: curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; Verb: vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; (distorted); oblique; circular.

Direction

Superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate; matronize; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule; (command); have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.

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

Instrument

Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.

Hammer; (impulse); edge tool; (cut); borer; vice, teeth; (hold); nail, rope; (join); peg; (hang); support; spoon; (vehicle); arms; oar; (navigation); cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph.

Interposition

Interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in; (insert).

Mariner

Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew.

Navigation

Ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.

Phrase: bon voyage; "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale".

Noun: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Skill

Look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth; live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near the wind; stoop to conquer; (cunning); play one's cards well, play one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the right horse.

Crosswords: Oar

Frisian (another, else, other), Manx (gold).

So, could you pass me the oar, 'n-word Jim' (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

'The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped' and on this ocean the Bedu go where they please and strike where they please (Lawrence of Arabia; writing credit: T.E. Lawrence; Robert Bolt)

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore (Immigrant song; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

The Winning Oar (1927)

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References

• OAR Consulting AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• 10 Wooden Boats You Can Build: For Sail, Motor, Paddle and Oar (The Woodenboat Series) (reference)

• Dictionary of Ship Types: Ships, Boats and Rafts Under Oar and Sail (reference)

• Oar (reference)

• OAR CONSULTING AG: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Pilots: The World of Pilotage Under Sail and Oar, Schooners and Open Boats of the European Pilots and Watermen (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Wiredrag using oar power Note third boat at distant right Wiredrag party off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Articles of whale-boat gear. 1. Lantern keg containing matches, bread,&c. 2 Boat compass. 3. Water keg. 4. Piggin for bailing water 5. Waif for signaling. 6. Tub oar crotch. 7. Double oar-lock 8. Large line in line-tub. 9. Knife to cut line. 10 Row-lock. 11. Hatchet 12. Grapnel. 13. Drag or drug to retard whale. 14. Canvas nipper. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Grover Cleveland as fisherman helping "The Post" girl with "presidential policy" oar on "ship of state". Credit: Library of Congress.

Mack Sennett girl in bathing suit holding up oar. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Here Number Three put in her oar.

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Civil Liberties

Spain

The applicant also has the right to the assistance of translators and interpreters, and the OAR admits documents in any language without requiring an official translation. (references)

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Expressions using "oar": be chained to the oar ♦ Bow oar ♦ die at the oar ♦ four oar ♦ have an oar in every man's boat ♦ have one's oar in everyone's boat ♦ Laboring oar ♦ oar cock ♦ pair oar ♦ ply the labouring oar ♦ ply the oar ♦ pull an oar ♦ pull oar ♦ pull the stroke oar ♦ put in one's oar ♦ put one's oar in ♦ spoon oar ♦ stroke oar ♦ sweep oar ♦ To feather an oar ♦ To put in one's oar. Additional references.

Beginning with "oar": oar-blade, oar-fish, Oar-footed, oar-inspiring, oar-like, oar-powered.

Ending with "oar": a four-oar, fifty-oar.

Albanian

therkë (derivation canal, drain, gutter), rremtar (oarer, oarsman, rower, waterman), rrem. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجذاف, ‏جذف مكره على عمل بكد, ‏المجذف. (various references)

Basque

arraun (scull). (various references)

Bulgarian 

карам (auto, cart, cause, drive, get along, have, impel, keep, lead, make, move, occasion, pilot, propel, render, roll along, run, sail, serve, set, set off, start, urge on, wheel), гребец (oarer, oarsman, puller, rower, sculler, waterman), греба (dip, dredge, ladle, pull, pull an oar, rake, row, scoop, shovel), гребло (grab, paddle, rake, raker, scoop), весло (scull), перка използувана при плуване. (various references)

Chinese 

枻 (stand for correcting a bow), 槳 (paddle), 楫 (to row), 桨 (Paddle). (various references)

Czech

veslo (paddle, sweep). (various references)

Danish

åre (vein). (various references)

Dutch

roeispaan, roeiriem, riem (belt, girdle, strap, zone). (various references)

Esperanto

remilo. (various references)

Farsi 

پاروزدن (Paddle, Row, Scull), پارو (Shovel). (various references)

Finnish

airo (scull). (various references)

French

rame (oars), aviron. (various references)

German

Ruder (handlebars, helm, oars, rudder). (various references)

Greek 

κουπί (paddle). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוט (paddle, scull). (various references)

Hungarian

evezőlapát (palm, scull), evező (paddle, scull). (various references)

Indonesian

pengayuh (oarsman, paddle, rower), pendayung (boatman, oar man, oarsman, rower), dayung (dipper, pedal). (various references)

Irish

rÚmh. (various references)

Italian

remo (handlebars, helm, oars, paddle, rudder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

橈 (paddle, scull), �" (scaffold, turret), 櫂 (paddle, scull), オー� の法則 (all guarantee, all or nothing, all right, all square, all-in-one, all-occasion dress, all-season coat, all-season dress, all-season track, allspice, all-star cast, all-star game, all-wave, all-weather coat, all-weather track, alternative, alternative school, alternative space, aura, aural communication, O.K., Ohm's law, oldie, oldies, omen, oral, oral approach, oral method, oral sex). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かい (assembly, association, avail, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, paddle, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth), オール , ろ. (various references)

Korean 

노 (Playing). (various references)

Manx

ymmyrt (match play, row, rowing), maidjey raue. (various references)

Maori

hoe-a. (various references)

Norwegian

åre. (various references)

Occitan

rem (scull). (various references)

Pig Latin

oaray.(various references)

Portuguese

remo (paddle). (various references)

Romanian

vâslã (paddle), ramã (case, casement, casing, chase, frame, framework, paddle, rail, rim), lopatã (float, paddle, pallet, Peel, shovel, spade). (various references)

Russian 

весло (paddle). (various references)

Scottish

r� mh (an oar, pl.+an). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veslo (paddle, scull), noga sa opnom između prstiju, mešalica za pivo. (various references)

Spanish

remo (rowing, scull). (various references)

Swedish

åra (scull). (various references)

Thai

ไม้พาย, พายเรือ, คนพายเรือ (oarsman). (various references)

Turkish

kürekçi (oarsman, oarswoman, rower, waterman), kürek çekmek (go boating, paddle, pull, pull oar, row, scull, tub), kürek (hard labor, hard labour, scoop, scull, shovel, spade), işçi (employee, laborer, labourer, man, prole, proletarian, soldier, worker, workingman, workman), fırın küreği (Peel). (various references)

Turkmen 

kьrek (paddle). (various references)

Ukrainian

човен (bark, boat, shallop, wherry), гребти, весляр (boater, oarer, oarsman, puller, rower, waterman), веслувати (pull, row), весло. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mái chèo người chèo thuyền. (various references)

Welsh

rhwyf. (various references)

arbor, arbore, arborem, arbores, arbori, arboribus, arboris, arborum, pinum, pinus, remia, remigium, remos, remus, tonsarum. (various references)

ar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "oar": oared, oarfish, oarfishes, oaring, oarless, oarlike, oarlock, oarlocks, oars, oarsman, oarsmanship, oarsmanships, oarsmen, oarswoman, oarswomen. (additional references)

Words ending with "oar": bezoar, boar, hoar, outroar, outsoar, roar, soar, uproar, upsoar. (additional references)

Words containing "oar": aboard, aboveboard, antibillboard, astarboard, backboard, backboards, bargeboard, bargeboards, baseboard, baseboards, beaverboard, beaverboards, bezoars, billboard, billboarded, billboarding, billboards, blackboard, blackboards, board, boarded, boarder, boarders, boarding, boardinghouse, boardinghouses, boardings, boardlike, boardman, boardmen, boardroom, boardrooms, boards, boardsailing, boardsailings, boardsailor, boardsailors, boardwalk, boardwalks, boarfish, boarfishes, boarish, boars, boart, boarts, boxboard, boxboards, breadboard, breadboarded, breadboarding, breadboards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Oar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aar, ao, aor, aork, Foawr, iora, joar, joir, jora, noar, oa, Oaa, oaas, oab, oac, oad, oag, oai, oam, oan, oap, oara, oard, oare, oarg, oarl, oart, oary, oau, oaw, oax, Oay, oaz, ocar, ocr, odar, oear, oer, oera, ogar, Ogard, ogary, ogr, oha, ohr, oia, oih, oii, oij, oir, oirl, oiv, oja, ojar, ojr, Olar, Olara, Olari, olr, omar, onar, onr, ooer, oor, oord, opar, opare, opr, oqa, oraa, orac, orae, oraf, orag, orah, orai, oraj, orak, oram, Orao, Orap, orare, orary, oraw, orax, orh, orp, orq, orv, orx, osart, osr, Otar, Otard, Ouir, ovar, owr, oya, oza, ozar, ua, uar, uir, ura, uzar, vor, woar, xor, yoar, Zohar. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ora.

-1 letter: ar, or.

+1 letter: aero, arco, arvo, boar, bora, faro, fora, hoar, hora, mora, oars, okra, orad, oral, orca, orra, osar, prao, proa, rato, road, roam, roan, roar, rota, soar, sora, taro, tora.

+2 letters: abhor, abort, acorn, actor, adore, adorn, afore, aggro, agora, algor, amort, amour, aorta, aport, apron, arbor, ardor, argol, argon, argot, armor, aroid, aroma, arose, arrow, arson, arvos, baron, board, boars, boart, bolar, boral, boras, borax, boyar, bravo, broad, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, claro, cobra, copra, coral, coria, croak, dobra, dorsa, doura, faros, favor, flora, foram, foray, gator, goral, groan, groat, hoard, hoars, hoary, horah, horal, horas, ixora, joram, jowar, karoo, korai, korat, krona, labor, largo, lobar, loral, loran, macro, major, manor, mayor, moira, molar, morae, moral, moras, moray, narco, noria, oared, oater, ocrea, okras, opera, orach, orals, orang, orate, orcas, oread, organ, ottar, ovary, pareo, pargo, parol, parvo, payor, polar, praos, proas, racon, radio, radon, ratio, ratos, rayon, razor, rioja, roach, roads, roams, roans, roars, roast, roman, rotas, rowan, royal, sapor, sarod, saros, savor, soars, sofar, solar, sonar, soras, sowar, tabor, tardo, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, tolar, torah, toras, troak, trona, valor, vapor, volar.