unoared en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ʌnˈɔː(ɹ)d/
Etymology
From un- + oared.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not supplied with oars; oarless.
Like one who drifts in idle boat / Unoared, and heedless whither bound[…]
1838, John Kenyon, Poems, for the most part occasional:
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(not-comparable) Unvisited by boats.
When the mists divide with the dawn o'er those glittering waters, / Do they gaze over unoared seas[…]
1908, Alfred Noyes, The Golden Hynde: