pair-oared
- a word derived from pair-oar.
Example Sentences
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This luminous painting commemorates the first pair-oared sculling race in America, held on the Schuykill river in Philadelphia in 1872.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2012
Switzerland took the four-oared race with coxswain; Holland the pair-oared without coxswain; Great Britain the four-oared without coxswain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Francis rowed, like Giuseppi, in his shirt, and in the darkness they were often taken for a pair-oared gondola on the lookout for a fare.
From The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
We got to the Battery in a little more than an hour, and there I transshipped my cargo to a pair-oared boat and started away for the anchorage.
From In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
Strutt tells us of a regatta in 1775 in which watermen contended in pair-oared boats or skiffs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
