pair-oar

noun

A boat rowed with two oars.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounpair-oar (plural pair-oars)

plural pair-oars

  1. A boat rowed with two oars.First known use 19th c.

    That evening he went out with a man in a pair oar, and was rowed to a standstill.

    1911, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Same Boat”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 90
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