Crossword-Solution: OAR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oar | 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. |
| Oar | n | An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar. |
| Oar | n | An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. |
| Oar | v. t. & i. | To row. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OAR | anagram | AOR, ARO, ORA, RAO, ROA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ACOREN
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COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with OAR (5)
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.
When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar.
And as for Uncle Silas, it ain’t any use for him to put in his oar, I wouldn’t believe him under oath!” Well, sir, that fairly made them shout; and even the judge he let go and laughed.
Betteredge,” he said, “as you have honoured me by taking an oar in my boat, and as you may, I think, be of some assistance to me before the evening is out, I see no use in our mystifying one another any longer, and I propose to set you an example of plain speaking on my side.
Now and then, the nearer dip of an oar in the water told of the viewless passage of other gondolas bringing guests back to the hotel.
Quotes with OAR (3)
Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment in which she had stood shiver, as a plant on the river-bed feels the shock of a passing oar and shivers: so she rocked: so she shivered. Millicent Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her. No vulgar jealousy could separate her from Richard. But she feared time itself, and read on Lady Bru…
Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him.
And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength. It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and he went over the side, into the dark, cold waters of the lake, sinking like a stone. It took her two seconds. And then she let out a scream for help, tossing the broken oar away from her, and jumped into the water after him. It was very cold, numbingly so, and as it closed over her head she grabbed forhim, wrapping her arms around his body, ready to sink to the bottom w…
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 2,209 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).