stroke-oar

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• Oar

  ·noun An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar. II. Oar ·vt & ·vi To <<Row>>. III. Oar ·noun An o...

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• oar

  To put in one's oar; to intermeddle, or give an opinion unasked: as, To be sure, you must put in you...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• oar

  A slender piece of timber used as a lever to propel a boat through the water. The blade is dipped in...

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• Stroke

  ·vt Power; influence. II. Stroke ·vt To make smooth by rubbing. III. Stroke ·Impf <<Struck>>. IV....

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• stroke

  To take a stroke: to take a bout with a woman. ...

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• stroke

  A pull or single sweep of the oars in rowing; hence the order, "Row a long stroke," which is intende...

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• Bow oar

  ·- The oar used by the bowman. II. Bow oar ·- One who rows at the bow of a boat. ...

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• Oar-footed

  ·adj Having feet adapted for swimming. ...

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• bow-oar

  The foremost oar or oars, in pulling a boat. ...

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• oar-propulsion

  The earliest motive power for vessels; it may be by the broadside in rowlocks abeam, by sweeps on th...

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• pair-oar

  A name of the London wherry of a larger size than the scull. ...

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• silver-oar

  One of the badges of the civil court afloat, conferring the power to arrest for debt if not less tha...

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• By-stroke

  ·noun An accidental or a slyly given stroke. ...

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• Crawl stroke

  ·add. ·- A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes a...

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• Dead-stroke

  ·adj Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. ...

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• Split stroke

  ·add. ·- In croquet, ·etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own a...

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• Spot stroke

  ·add. ·- The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave t...

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• Trudgen stroke

  ·add. ·- A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; — so called from its use by an ...

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• government stroke

  n. a lazy style of doingwork, explained in quotations. The phrase is not dead. 1856. W. W. Dobie, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• good stroke

  Used in the sense of considerable; as, 'a good stroke of business.'--Brockett's North County Words. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• long stroke

  The order to a boat's crew to stretch out and hang on her. ...

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• wash of an oar

  See blade of an oar ...

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• blade or wash of an oar

  Is the flat part of it which is plunged into the water in rowing. The force and effect in a great me...

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• feather an oar, to

  In rowing, is to turn the blade horizontally, with the top aft, as it comes out of the water. This l...

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• stroke of the sea

  The shock occasioned to a vessel by a heavy sea striking her. ...

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• oar, to shove in an

  To intermeddle, or give an opinion unasked. ...

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• stroke-side of a boat

  That in which the after starboard rowlock is placed, or where the after oar is rowed if single-banke...

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