Usually means: Rowing boat using long paddles.
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  1. oaring: Merriam-Webster
  2. oaring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. oaring: Wordnik
  4. oaring: Wiktionary
  5. Oaring, oaring: Dictionary.com
  6. Oaring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Oaring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. oaring: FreeDictionary.org
  9. oaring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Oaring: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (OAR)

noun:  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.
noun:  An oarsman; a rower.
noun:  (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
verb:  (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
noun:  Initialism of original aspect ratio. [(cinematography) The aspect ratio of the rectangular shape that the director intended his or her motion picture to be viewed in, as opposed to modified aspect ratio.]
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