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Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night.
Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.
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An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
n.
A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
a.
Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
n.
One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
a.
Without oars.
pl.
of Oarsman
n.
A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
v. t.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
v. t.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
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A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
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An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
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A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
v. i.
To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
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A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
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Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.
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The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
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One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.
v. t.
The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
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