oars

American  

[awrz, ohrz] / ɔrz, oʊrz /

interjection

Nautical.

1. (used as a command to the crew of a scull or other similar boat to cease rowing and hold the oars horizontal with blades feathered.)

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Example Sentences

As we pull on the oars, I stare at the receding shoreline.

From Literature

I wasn’t good with the oars and they all knew it.

From Literature

Slowly it moved its flippers like the oars of a rowboat, turning toward Renata and bobbing its head as if in greeting as it went past.

From Literature

"We lost oars, and we drifted out further.... It kind of all went wrong very, very quickly."

From BBC

Near sunset they returned, manfully pulling the oars as the dories rode low in the water, heavy with glistening, still-wriggling fish.

From Literature