Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with oars: used in composition: as, a four-oared boat.
- In zoology: Oar-footed: as, the oared shrew, Sorex remifer, a common aquatic shrew of Europe.
- Specifically, copepod or copelate.
- Totipalmate or steganopodous, as a bird's foot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition.
- adjective Having feet adapted for swimming.
- adjective Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See
Illust. ofAves . - adjective (Zoöl.) an aquatic European shrew (
Crossopus ciliatus ); -- called alsoblack water shrew .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
oars . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
oar .,rowed .
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Examples
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It was the last battle at sea between "oared" ships, which featured the most powerful navy in the world, a Moslem force with between 12,000 to 15,000 Christian slaves as rowers.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jessica 2008
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It was the last battle at sea between "oared" ships, which featured the most powerful navy in the world, a Moslem force with between 12,000 to 15,000 Christian slaves as rowers.
Victory Vessels for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary MedievalMama 2008
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Japanese style, for both oars and sails, and are more capacious and better suited for carrying food than any other kind of oared vessel.
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Well, really, any kind of naval warfare with big, lumbering oared ships.
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Well, really, any kind of naval warfare with big, lumbering oared ships.
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I was held about six and a half weeks (was the only caucasian) and when they moved me they ran into one of oared watch teams.
JAMES P Tarazon 2010
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Suddenly, and contrary to all expectations three, three-oared galleys, laden with supplies landed at the city through the midst of the enemy.
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish John 2009
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Suddenly, and contrary to all expectations three, three-oared galleys, laden with supplies landed at the city through the midst of the enemy.
St Albert of Trapani John 2009
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There, within a remarkably short span, they built the sloop Saratoga (eight long guns, eighteen carronades), the Ticonderoga (twelve long guns, five carronades), and the Eagle (eight long guns, twelve carronades) and rehabilitated ten gunboats (oared ships with one gun each).
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Well, really, any kind of naval warfare with big, lumbering oared ships.
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