oar

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɔː/    美 /oɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — The oar snaps in his hand Before he reaches dry land But the sound doesn't deafen his smile Just pokes at wet sand With an oar in his hand Floats off down the river Nile Floats off down the river Nile...
  2. An oarsman; a rower.
    — He is a good oar.
  3. An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
动词 v.
  1. To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. literary
    — The weather was fine, and whilst oaring along I would fain have landed on the islands between; but fearful of a change, and already half worn-out by my previous trail, I let them go by with the comforting resolve of turning them up on some future occasion.

词形变化

oars plural oars present,singular,third-person oaring participle,present oared participle,past oared past

词汇关系

衍生词
eight-oar laboring oar labouring oar oarage oar blade oarfish oarhole oar-hole oar in someone's boat oarless oarlike oarlock oarswoman oarweed oary pair-oar pull an oar put in an oar put in one's oar put one's oar in spoon oar stick one's oar in

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.
词源 2
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.
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