Definitions for oar

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oar oar

Spelling: [awr, ohr]

IPA: /ɔr, oʊr/

Oar is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in oar (aor).

Definitions for oar

noun

1. a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
2. something resembling this or having a similar purpose.
3. a person who rows; oarsman.

Idioms

1. put in one's oar, to meddle; interfere:
2. rest on one's oars, to cease to make an effort; relax after exertion; stop working after success or completing a task:

verb (used with object)

1. to propel with or as if with oars; row.
2. to traverse or make (one's way) by, or as if by, rowing.

verb (used without object)

1. to row.
2. to move or advance as if by rowing.

Origin of oar

before 900; Middle English ore, Old English ār; cognate with Old Norse ār

Examples for oar

Harry sounded with an oar, and found that the water was only two feet deep.

Their ineptitude required the seaman to abandon his post at the tiller and man an oar himself.

I have seen in some of these canoes seventy and eighty men, each with his oar.

She put out her hand, and took his, and pressed it, holding hers over it upon the oar.

In that boat, now vanishing upon the sea, the dead man held an oar.

An oar has been made since I came in, wanting the shaped handle.

I got up my jury rig—the oar and the spray shield—and took the helm.

Greer went back to the stern, picked up an oar and began to scull.

There was room in it for a girl-partner at the oar, but no accommodation for passengers.

Every man and spar and oar on the vessel seemed burning in its light.