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Sentence Examples The person on the port side all the way aft is the stroke oar, the rower who sets the pace that everyone else must match. He is an experienced whitewater rafter and one of the best big water oar boaters in the world. The first organised ferry service from Auckland to Devonport began in 1854 using sail or oar propelled whaleboats. Her oar must have caught a little wave and rolled the boat straight over because they were going flat tack. Bring the midship part of the boat to windward of him and give him an oar to grasp. The waves of the angry sea threw Lorana into her uncle, Koric, who held on to the oar with all his strength. The rower drops the oar into the water coiled forward with his arms at full stretch. The standard galley or galere ordinaire, had twenty-six banks of oars per side, with five men at each oar. He relates the importance of the thole, which secures the oar to the boat, and notes that towing was the expedition's worst job assignment. The oars were attached to wooden lockpins by leather thongs attached to the oar shaft. It was quite an effort just to pull the oar level and even without my mighty power the boat was still whizzing along. He quickly shipped his oar and shoved Lori roughly out of the way as he took care of hers. At this point, the guard, who had been skulking around listening to our conversation, decided to stick his oar in. In a single smooth movement, Dain dropped his oar and drew the crossbow from his belt. Smith got his oar stuck in the water and had to stop rowing with 600 metres to go. The crew suddenly lost their stroke oar to eligibility issues, and Erickson was back to the drawing board to find a line-up. Every one else is jumping on the health bandwagon, so I might as well stick my oar in. Until the PC do-gooders stuck their oar in, schools could punish those who needed it. This innovative oarlock system design incorporates a new 'tension arm' mechanism within the gate that holds your oar tight against the pin. The tip of the oar sliced down through the surface of the still water like a knife through smoke. Show More Sentences Then spend four days floating the Class III Rogue River, refining the skills you need to guide a private paddleboat or oar boat downstream. Rienks's international rowing career spanned five Olympic games and during that time he won medals in both sculling and sweep oar events. Although it is their first season in the pair, the brothers are medallists in the eight and are using their sweep oar talent to their advantage. Bhim, our Nepalese boatman on the sweep oar, skillfully hauls the raft around so that we hit the wave bow-on. The former oyster pirate from San Francisco Bay was the man at the stern with the crucial sweep oar. As the dimple moves, it acts like an oar, pushing against the surrounding water and creating a force that propels the spider forward. In a good eight, when stroke seat's oar hits the water, the boat will be past the puddles left by bow seat's oar on the previous stroke. Far too big and heavy for the average stove top, these are set on single-ring gas burners on the ground, and stirred with something more like an oar than a cooking utensil. This ten oar open vessel also has an impressive turn of speed under sail. The man still holding on to the tail, and the dog paddling bravely, the craft was quickly brought alongside the oar, which the bargeman seized and took on board. Crew mates created a mace from a boat's oar, complete with silver mount decorated with Royal Marines cap badges and decorative knotwork and braiding. Excuse me for sticking my oar in, but for me there can be only one winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, which will be announced today. But the government sticking their oar in is an entirely different matter. Every paddler moves his or her oar in time with the beat of the drum. Their ineptitude required the seaman to abandon his post at the tiller and man an oar himself. The war galleys were mostly manned by prisoners of war or convicts, who were chained to benches, usually three to six per oar. The Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports had a silver oar of early date, but it was stolen in the 1960s and replaced with a replica. A tail-end skeg helps with stability and steering, while a tall single oar is all that is needed for moving. If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar. He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe. Show More Sentences By pushing against the water with an oar, a force is generated to move the boat. The point of placement of the blade in the water is a relatively fixed point about which the oar serves as a lever to propel the boat. The recovery starts with the extraction and involves coordinating the body movements with the goal to move the oar back to the catch position. Racing boats also have sliding seats to allow the use of the legs in addition to the body to apply power to the oar. The increased power is achieved through increased length of leverage on the oar through longer limbs of the athlete. The trop shell consists of three people where the bow has a pair of sculling oars, and 2,3 each a sweeping oar. An 'oar' is often referred to as a blade in the case of sweep oar rowing and as a scull in the case of sculling. A sculling oar is shorter and has a smaller blade area than the equivalent sweep oar. To keep seawater out, these oar holes were sealed with wooden disks from the inside, when the oars were not in use. At sea, the sail enabled longships to travel faster than by oar and to cover long distances overseas with far less manual effort. Designers may match oar length to the amount of space provided for oar storage in the boat. To avoid the shame of arriving in Genoa in shackles, Dandolo committed suicide by smashing his head against the oar to which he was tied. This was necessary because the Chinese stern hung rudder, in origin a modified centreline steering oar, whilst extremely efficient, was comparatively mechanically weak. In extraction, the rower pushes down on the oar handle to quickly lift the blade from the water and rapidly rotates the oar so that the blade is parallel to the water. A man appeared in fisherman's oilskins and made us repeat a couple of phrases in a Newfie accent, swig some Screech, eat some hard bread, and knighted us with an oar. Simultaneously, the rower pushes the oar handle away from the chest. It had a steering oar to starboard braced by an extra frame. The catch, which is placement of the oar blade in the water, and the extraction, also known as the finish or release, when the rower removes the oar blade from the water. A short oar is easier to use in a narrow creek or a crowded anchorage. He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore. Show More Sentences In this respect the silver oar is the equivalent of a ceremonial mace, representing the authority of the Crown and the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom. Since Elizabethan times, the symbol of authority for a British Admiralty Court has been a silver oar, placed before the Judge when the Court is in session. Ergometers do not simulate the lateral balance challenges, the exact resistance of water, or the exact motions of true rowing including the sweep of the oar handles. Every man who could ply an oar pulled up to give Mr Gladstone a cheer. A Cotter is, properly speaking, any boat which takes a full-lengthed oar. It was over one metre in length and had an oar blade for a handle. When my wife and I visit friends outside Chicago, they always take us to this riverside restaurant, The Oar House, so that I can chow on brats and quaff Old Style beer. In the third Record Club venture, Wilco, Feist, Jamie Lidell and James Gadson joined Beck to cover Skip Spence's Oar. The Socceroos had opportunities to test Spain's backline with two Tommy Oar free-kicks, but none of them eventuated in clear-cut chances. Examples from Classical Literature They were out on the gemlike lake now, and Priscilla was sternly instructing Margaret how to handle an oar. Surely he would have then concluded me as constant at the bordello, as the galley-slave at his oar. Caractacus and his companion, I found, were both accustomed to pull an oar. They catch the dipped oar with long antenn, and chequer the slimy bottom with the shadow of their leaves. You see I'm still chained to the oar of yellow journalism, but it is a rather light servitude. All of a sudden Swatty's left oar came out of the oarlock and he nearly fell backwards into the bottom of the boat. He shall put an oar over the stern and scull you right in under the bowsprit. In these they embark four men to go fishing, each one rowing with a double-ended oar. A backstroke of Gino's oar, however, soon brought the side of the arrested boat to a flight of steps. In an instant a shrieking slave was free, splintering his oar for a bludgeon. The prize, a bag containing sixty-four dollars, suspended from an oar in the stake boat. I rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway. There was room in it for a girl-partner at the oar, but no accommodation for passengers. And once he let tattie and me try to row, but I 'caught a crab' and dropped the oar. Nevertheless, he clung to his seat like a limpet, and pulled at his oar with all his might. She now took the other oar from the rowlock, and was about to rise, when the bishop shouted to her. The oar, as though pulled by the water, slipped out of the oarlock and floated away entirely unconcerned. If I had an oar or somethin' to steer this clipper with, maybe we could git into shoal water. She put out her hand, and took his, and pressed it, holding hers over it upon the oar. The French rame, an oar, is remus, but that modified by an unconscious recollection of ramus. Show More Sentences I have seen in some of these canoes seventy and eighty men, each with his oar. Harry sounded with an oar, and found that the water was only two feet deep. He got up and slapped the oar back into the oarlock and we both rowed hard. But it was a close shave, and the girl's hands trembled and for a minute she dropped her oar. The dory slackened speed, turned in obedience to the steering oar, and slid under the forequarter of the anchored vessel. When sail and oar and setting-pole proved unavailing, the men were out and overboard, running the banks with the cordelle. Even De Griers has found it necessary to put in his oar, and to visit me, and to address to me the most earnest supplications. The aftermost oar in a boat, from which the others take their time. As he turned he got a glimpse of the stroke oar of the Atalanta. I loitered at Attica, hoping for a place where I could put in my oar. The one oar, the baler, and a few fathoms of line on the floorboards. The other beast was coming at me, clattering his oar over the stern. A culdee thrust at him with an oar, and pinned him among the sea-tangle. Greer went back to the stern, picked up an oar and began to scull. I got an oar over the stern to scull, but I was not fit for much exertion. The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. Carter broke an oar near the finish line, and it was all up then. He fluctuated, sighed, kept his Witney, and laid down his oar. With brutal insult, they chained him to the oar as a galley slave. They shoved off, presently, Tom in command, Huck at the after oar and Joe at the forward. Show More Sentences Those your gunboats poke her nose and shove her oar in every place. An oar has been made since I came in, wanting the shaped handle. The half-caste peaked and socketed his oar, and looked at the officer. Before I could run forward and leap aboard, he shoved the boats apart with an oar, laughing mockingly in my face as he did so. Every man and spar and oar on the vessel seemed burning in its light. There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar. Aye, aye, sir, cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round his great steering oar. They seem to have only one oar, and nellies trying to steer with that. In that boat, now vanishing upon the sea, the dead man held an oar. He growled an obscene oath as he heaved the great oar forward. They had neither oar nor other means of propelling it to shore. He punted us over, then shouldered the oar again and waited till our men were at some distance before he offered me his arm. She too had got possession of an oar, and had pushed off, so as to release the boat from the overhanging window-frame. There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. Not one failed to ship his oar, or drop it into the rowlock. So by dint of punching and kicking I started one of my men into a state of somnambulism, and giving him an oar, took another and pulled towards the lights of the steamer. It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar. This being done the sea will rise and cover the mountain, and on it thou wilt perceive the figure of a metal man seated in a boat, having an oar in each hand. Pulling an oar in the Jeroboam's boat, was a man of a singular appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual notabilities make up all totalities. I do not know how he attained even that magnificent distance from shore, for he had but a single oar, with which he was blissfully rowing about in circles. Show More Sentences When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. I pulled up my centreboard, ran full tilt into the mud, took in sail, and, standing in the stern, as I had often done at low tide, I began to shove the skiff with an oar. Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boatbuilders, and mast oar and block makers. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of oar? Words that rhyme with oar What is the past tense of oar? What is the plural of oar? What is the adjective for oar? What is the noun for oar? Translations for oar Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words OAPs OAP oaky oakwood Oakville oakum oared oarfish oarless oarlock oarlocks oars 3-letter Words Starting With o oa