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oarage

oarage noun: the act of using oars; rowing.

Noun

oarage (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
    • The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
  2. (archaic, poetic) A sweeping motion that resembles rowing.
    • […] the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 184
  3. Equipment used for rowing.
    • With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 49

Origin of oarage

From oar + -age.

Questions about oarage

What does oarage mean?
Oarage means the act of using oars; rowing.
What part of speech is oarage?
Oarage is a noun.

Words near oarage in the dictionary

  1. oar blade
  2. oar blades
  3. oar in someone's boat
  4. oar-hole
  5. oar-holes
  6. oarage
  7. oarblade
  8. oarblades
  9. oare
  10. oared
  11. oares

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