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oarage en · NOUN

Etymology

From oar + -age.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) 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, uncountable) 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. (uncountable) 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: