oar

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. 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.
2. An oarsman; a rower.
3. An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Verb

To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

Conceptos

oar

paddle

scull

row

oarsman

rower

string

rowing

punt

long oar

pole

rover

punting-pole

stern-oar

sweep

canoe

bat

outboard motor

helm

judgement

rudder

boat

row a boat

shaft

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɔː/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.