oars

[ awrz, ohrz ]

interjectionNautical.
  1. (used as a command to the crew of a scull or other similar boat to cease rowing and hold the oars horizontal with blades feathered.)

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How to use oars in a sentence

  • They were provided with sails and twelve oars each, and a falconet, or small brass cannon.

  • About the same time it was discovered that the boats had neither oars, nor rudders, nor supplies of food.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • The boatmen sang in deep and almost tragic voices as they plied the enormous oars.

    Bella Donna | Robert Hichens
  • The six men pulled with a long stroke, their oars dipping along the surface of the sea as they feathered them.

    Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kielland
  • When they did at length break silence, it was in short interjectional remarks, as they resumed the oars.