oar
noun
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
oarless
-
a word derived from
oar.
Example Sentences
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It was a little boat, oarless, or not visibly propelled, and in it were her mother, and Vesta, and some one whom she could not make out.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
If you succeed in constructing this sailless, oarless vessel that shall face the wind as swiftly as if the wind were in its favor, I will create you—what is your name?
From The Resources of Quinola by Honoré de Balzac
That oarless boat, beached amid the desolation of sand and the waste of water, alone told a story to make the heart sick.
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Randall Parrish
Alwyn half closed his eyes and listened entranced, allowing his soul to drift like an oarless boat on the sweeping waves of the music's will.
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
The oarless boat was found floating far out to sea after the fog lifted.
From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells
