pair-oar en · NOUN
Meanings
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A boat rowed with two oars.
That evening he went out with a man in a pair oar, and was rowed to a standstill.
1911, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Same Boat”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 90:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pair-oars | Number=Plur | lexicographic |