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Oared   /ɔrd/   Listen
adjective
Oared  adj.  
1.
Furnished with oars; chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having feet adapted for swimming.
(b)
Totipalmate; said of the feet of certain birds.
Oared shrew (Zool.), an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); called also black water shrew.





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"Oared" Quotes from Famous Books



... horns of God's altar, I believe the fellow is right!" cried old Gisco. "See how they swoop upon us like falcons. They are full-manned and full-oared." ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... end of the line being made fast to the bridge, where I will stand. By that man's side will be an axe. When I stop the engines I shall jerk this cord, and he will thus get the signal to cut the lashing which will be holding the forward anchor. He will then jump overboard and swim to the four-oared dingy, which we shall tow astern. The dingy is full of life-buoys, and is unsinkable. In it are rifles. It is to be held by two ropes, one made fast at her bow and one at her stern. The first man to reach her will haul in the tow-line and pull the dingy to starboard. ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis
... occurrence, the commander of the station let him alone. A very shrewd officer wished to show his own cleverness, and to find out his men's weakness; so one night, when thick clouds were flying across the moon, he crept round the bay in a six-oared cutter, ran ashore on the sand, hauled up half a dozen empty kegs, and told his men to bury them in the sand. This ingenious captain proceeded as he fancied smugglers would have done, and he intended to go round to the coastguard's cottage and inform him of the trick in the morning. Just ...
— The Romance of the Coast • James Runciman
... leaving Eowa, the weather changed; and as on these perilous coasts there was no possibility of landing, two days and the intervening night had to be spent in the open four-oared boat, ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... ten o'clock, after Tess had silenced the child in her arms and Teola had lost her nervousness in a stupor, three boats shot from different points of the west shore, and quietly oared a path through the moonlit lake toward the ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White


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