OAR meaning: Tool for rowing a boat

We found 47 dictionaries that define the word oar:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

oar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oar: Merriam-Webster
oar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
oar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
oar: Collins English Dictionary
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Oar, oar: Wordnik
oar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Oar: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
oar: Wiktionary
oar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
oar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
oar: Infoplease Dictionary
OAR: Dictionary.com
oar: Online Etymology Dictionary
oar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
O.A.R, O.A.R. (band), OAR (disambiguation), OAR, Oar (Skip Spence album), Oar (album), Oar (sport rowing), Oar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Oar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
oar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
oar: Rhymezone
oar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
oar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
OAR: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
Oar: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
oar: FreeDictionary.org
oar: Mnemonic Dictionary
oar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
Oar: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)

OAR: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

oar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
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Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
OAR: Acronym Finder
OAR: Three Letter Words with definitions
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oar: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
OAR: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

OAR, o.a.r: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)

Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
Oar: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.]

Similar:

laboring oar, rigger, yawl, yuloh, gondola, wash, bladework, yoke, whiff, shearpole, more...

Opposite:

rudder

Types:

single, double, paddle, row, scull, sweep, more...

Phrases:

steering oar, laboring oar, stroke oar, oar blades, bow oar, more...

Adjectives:

long, single, broken, large, good, heavy, second, muffled, right, thin, stern

Colors:

brown, blue, green, red, yellow, more...