Oar

Oar - Other Definitions

• (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
  
  
• (n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
  
  
• (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  
  
• (v. t. & i.) To row.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Oar
  
  
• (a.) Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
  
  
• (a.) Having feet adapted for swimming.
  
  
• (a.) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.