pair-oar
noun
a racing shell propelled by two persons, each with one oar.
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
This was before outrigged sculling and pair-oared boats were much used, and since they became fashionable there have been junior pairs and junior sculling.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
It is still full four hundred yards from him, but the moonlight being in his favour he makes it out to be a pair-oared skiff with two men in it.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
He put away the pair-oared boat and got a four-oared gig, and soon had the men who pulled it trained to row him in racing style.
From The Story of General Gordon by Jeanie Lang
