OAR

OAR. → General scriptures concerning Isa 33:21; Eze 27:6,29

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oar. Oar, n. an instrument used to row with

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Oar (ōr), n [[AS. ār; akin to Icel. ār, Dan. aare, Sw. åra; perh. akin to E. row, v. Cf. Rowlock.]] 1. 1. 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.
☞ An oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a kind of fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of the boat. 2. 2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
3. 3. (Zoöl.) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
Oar cock (Zoöl.), the water rail. — Spoon oar, an oar having the blade so curved as to afford a better hold upon the water in rowing. — To boat the oars, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat. — To feather the oars. See under Feather., v. t. — To lie on the oars, to cease pulling, raising the oars out of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest. — To muffle the oars, to put something round that part which rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing. — To put in one's oar, to give aid or advice; — commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited. — To ship the oars, to place them in the rowlocks. — To toss the oars, To peak the oars, to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. — To trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. — To unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.