English-Thai Dictionary

oar

N คนพาย เรือ  oarsman rower kon-pai-ruea

 

oar

N ไม้ พาย  paddle mai-pai

 

oar

VI พาย เรือ  พาย  แจว  row paddle pai-ruea

 

oar

VT พาย เรือ  พาย  แจว  row paddle pai-ruea

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OAR

n.An instrument for rowing boats, being a piece of timber round or square at one end, and flat at the other. The round end is the handle, and the flat end the blade. To boat the oars, in seamanship, to cease rowing and lay the oars in the boat.
To ship the oars, to place them in the row-locks.

 

OAR

v.i.To row.

 

OAR

v.t.To impel by rowing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OAR

OAR Oar, n Etym: [AS. ar; akin to Icel. ar, Dan. aare, Sw. åra; perh.akin to E. row, v. Cf. Rowlock. ]

 

1. An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

 

Note: An oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a kind of fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of the boat.

 

2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good car.

 

3. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. Oar cock (Zoöl ), the water rail. [Prov. Eng. ] -- Spoon oar, an oar having the blade so curved as to afford a better hold upon the water in rowing. -- To boat the oars, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat. -- To feather the oars. See under Feather. , v. t. -- To lie on the oars, to cease pulling, raising the oars out of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest. -- To muffle the oars, to put something round that part which rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing. -- To put in one's oar, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited. -- To ship the oars, to place them in the rowlocks. -- To toss the oars, To peak the oars, to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. -- To trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. -- To unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.

 

OAR

Oar, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Oared; p. pr. & vb. n. Oaring.]

 

Defn: To row. "Oared himself. " Shak. Oared with laboring arms. Pope.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

oar

oar |ôr ɔ (ə )r | ▶noun a pole with a flat blade, pivoting in an oar lock, used to row or steer a boat through the water. • a rower. ▶verb [ with obj. ] row; propel with or as with oars: oaring the sea like madmen | [ no obj. ] : oaring through the weeds. PHRASES put in one's oar informal give an opinion without being asked. rest on one's oars relax one's efforts. DERIVATIVES oar less adjective ORIGIN Old English ār, of Germanic origin; related to Danish and Norwegian åre.

 

Oxford Dictionary

oar

oar |ɔː | ▶noun a pole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water. • an oarsman; a rower. ▶verb [ with obj. ] propel with or as if with oars; row: oaring the sea like madmen | [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] : oaring through the weeds. PHRASES put (or stick ) one's oar in informal, chiefly Brit. give an opinion without being asked. rest (US lay ) on one's oars relax one's efforts. DERIVATIVES oared adjective [ in combination ] : four-oared sculls, oarless adjective ORIGIN Old English ār, of Germanic origin; related to Danish and Norwegian åre.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

oar

oar noun paddle, scull, blade. PHRASES put one's oar in /put in one's oar sometimes I like to put my oar in and my advice can be a little tactless: meddle, interfere, butt in, intrude, intervene, pry; informal poke one's nose in, horn in on, muscle in on, snoop, kibitz.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

oar

oar /ɔː r /名詞 複 ～s /-z /C 1 オール ,櫂 （かい ） (!paddleより長い ) ▸ pull on [with ] the oars オールをこぐ .2 こぎ手 ▸ a good [bad ] oar 上手な [下手な ]こぎ手 .be ch à ined to the ó ar 苦役に縛りつけられる .h à ve an ó ar in è very man's b ó at だれのことにも口を出す .l ì e [r è st, ｟米 ｠l à y ] on one's ó ars 仕事をやめて休む .p ù t [sh ò ve, st ì ck, g è t ] one's ó ar ì n ｟英 くだけて ｠おせっかいをする .動詞 他動詞 自動詞 (…を )オールでこぐ ▸ oar one's way こぎ進む .