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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unoared en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ʌnˈɔː(ɹ)d/

Etymology

From un- + oared.

Meanings

  1. (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:
  2. (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: