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oare

oare is the obsolete spelling of oar.

Meaning of oar

Noun

oar (plural oars)

  1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
    • The oar snaps in his hand
      Before he reaches dry land
      But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
      Just pokes at wet sand
      With an oar in his hand
      Floats off down the river Nile
      Floats off down the river Nile...19 October 1979, Madness, “Night Boat to Cairo”, Suggs (lyrics)
    Synonyms:
    paddle
  2. An oarsman; a rower.
    • He is a good oar.
  3. An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

See all 4 meanings of oar

Proper noun capitalized: Oare

Oare

  1. A small village in Chieveley parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5074).
  2. A village and civil parish by Oare Creek in Swale district, Kent; Oare Marshes are also here (OS grid ref TR0062).
  3. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district; Oare Water is a minor river flowing through the village and parish (OS grid ref SS8047).
    • There is a local rhyme which says:
      Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero
      Are three such places as you seldom hear o'.
      Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)]...1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302
  4. A village in Wilcot, Huish and Oare parish, north of Pewsey, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1563).

Forms of oare

pluraloares

Phrases with oare

Questions about oare

What does oare mean?
Oare means a small village in Chieveley parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5074).
What is oare the obsolete spelling of?
Oare is the obsolete spelling of oar.
What part of speech is oare?
Oare is a proper noun.

Words near oare in the dictionary

  1. oar-hole
  2. oar-holes
  3. oarage
  4. oarblade
  5. oarblades
  6. oare
  7. oared
  8. oares
  9. oarfish
  10. oarfishes
  11. oarhole

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