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.
was oaring
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past progressiveof oar.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He made a great work with his elbows as he went, working them backward and forward at his sides as though he was oaring a boat.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
