stroke oar
AmericanEtymology
Origin of stroke oar
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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“I really did not give it much thought other than it being another saga for PLU crew,” said Curt Pearson, the stroke oar in the Knights varsity.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2017
Cornell had lost two races, one to Yale and one to Syracuse whose stroke oar, Tom Lombardi, had never rowed in a losing shell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quiet, retiring, the family scholar, he has kept on pulling the stroke oar, a sagely sober counselor and friend to his brothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also helped that he was strikingly good- looking and built like the oarsman he had been, the former stroke oar of a Washington crew that had won national championships in 1924 and 1926.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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