Noun: oar
Sample Sentences
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The oar snaps in his hand
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Before he reaches dry land
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But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
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Just pokes at wet sand
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With an oar in his hand
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Floats off down the river Nile
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Floats off down the river Nile... [19 October 1979, Madness, “Night Boat to Cairo”, Suggs (lyrics):]
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He is a good oar.
Nouns inflected like oar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár. See: Middle English Nouns '
ore', Old Norse Nouns '
ár'.
Verbs referencing "oar"
Latin Nouns
remus, Latvian Nouns
airis.