oar

Plural: oars

Noun

• an implement used to propel or steer a boat
• A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
• An oarsman; a rower.
• An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Verb

• To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
• -ED, -ING, -S to propel with oars (long, broad-bladed poles)

Examples

• "He is a good oar."

Synonyms

paddle