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owre

owre is the obsolete form of hour.

owre is the obsolete form of oar.

owre is the obsolete form of ore.

owre is the obsolete form of our.

Meaning of hour

Noun

hour (plural hours)

  1. A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
    • Holonyms: day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
    Synonyms:
    stound, microcentury
  2. A season, moment, or time.
    • Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
  3. (poetic) The time.
    • The hour grows late and I must go home.
  4. (in plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
    • By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.2000, T. C. G. James, edited by Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain, →ISBN
  5. (in plural) The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
    • I asked my manager for more hours.
  6. (in plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.

See all 7 meanings of hour

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

Forms of owre

pluralowres

Origin of owre

Obsolete forms.

Questions about owre

What is owre the obsolete form of?
Owre is the obsolete form of hour.

Words near owre in the dictionary

  1. ownwayish
  2. OWO
  3. oword
  4. owords
  5. Owosso
  6. owre
  7. Owren's disease
  8. owres
  9. owrie
  10. ows
  11. owsen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: owre (page history and authors); hour (page history and authors); oar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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