oarage

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noun

The act of using oars; rowing.

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Meanings

nounoarage (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableThe act of using oars; rowing.

    The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.

    1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
  2. archaicpoeticuncountableA sweeping motion that resembles rowing.

    […] the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.

    1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 184
  3. uncountableEquipment used for rowing.

    With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]

    1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 49

Origin

From oar + -age.

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APA

oarage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oarage

MLA

“oarage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oarage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oarage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oarage.

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