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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Three days ago, through an accident, I drifted, in an oarless boat, out from the river-mouth at Fort Dearborn to the open lake.
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Randall Parrish
The oarless boat was found floating far out to sea after the fog lifted.
From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells
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
And swiftly speed afar,III 1 Windborne on backward car, The viewless fiend who scares me with wild cries, To oarless Thracian tide, Of ocean-chambers wide, About the bed where Amphitritè lies.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
