oars

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If you don't get that oar up and out at the finish you'll hit oars and crab for sure.

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Quick take

An oarsman; a rower.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of oars gathered in one view.

noun

An oarsman; a rower.

noun

(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

noun

A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for oars.

noun

An oarsman; a rower.

noun

(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

noun

Initialism of original aspect ratio. [(cinematography) The aspect ratio of the rectangular shape that the director intended his or her motion picture to be viewed in, as opposed to modified aspect ratio.]

Example sentences

If you don't get that oar up and out at the finish you'll hit oars and crab for sure.

Once there, if you don't have oars odds are you're not coming back if you leave (floating or swimming).

Perhaps Kurzweil is just the hand guiding the ship, but not the one pulling the oars?

Port - as steering oars got bigger, boats tended to dock on the left hand side.

Without a team of people dipping their oars into the water, though, you're just adrift.

If the oars moved freely through the water there would be no thrust, as would be the case when rowing in liquid helium.

If we see 'Rational Watson Powered by WebSphere' we'll know they didn't swing the oars hard enough...

I have heard, however, that quite a few folks stuck their oars into the IPv6 spec process.

Especially considering that, in practice, oars move quite a lot through water.

It´s also possible they did have oars but forgot about them at some point over the thousands of years because they didn´t need them.

Another explanation for how they got there is that they did have sails or oars in the past, but they were forgotten over time.

Or, (2) Do you get out some oars and influence your path.

Quote examples

"to show that the balance of forces in this rig as the oars are pulled through the water" If the oars are pulled through the water, the boat wouldn't move.

To use the “Ship of Theseus” analogy you are proposing to replace all the parts of the cockpit with new parts, but you are also at the same time discarding the hull, the sails and the oars.

I keep watching Cargo Cult "Agile" turn every project into a galley, developers at the oars with the scrum master merely manning the drum and shouting "row!" Two lashes for failing to update your task in the system, no matter that the work got done...