stroke oar

How to use stroke oar in a sentence

• So she rowed her best and having the stroke oar, Uncle Jabez was obliged to pull his best to keep up with her.

  Ruth Fielding At College | Alice B. Emerson

• Bill Hardy was rowing the stroke oar, and did the questioning.

  A Final Reckoning | G. A. Henty

• The fame of the half-back and the short-stop and the stroke-oar has grown out of proportion to their real worth.

  The Young Pitcher | Zane Grey

• First of all the professor chose Celia Prime 162 for stroke oar.

  The Girls of Central High | Gertrude W. Morrison

• Suddenly Fisher Young, pulling the stroke oar, gave a faint scream; he was shot through the left wrist.

  Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. Yonge