Definitions
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- adjective Resembling an
oar or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nearly every one of the segments bears one pair of appendages, which can be referred by their forked nature to the two-parted, oarlike flaps of sandworms, but the appendages of crustacea have departed from their prototypes in functional respects and in details of structure.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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The long oarlike rudder was on the board or side of the ship to the right of the stern, called the starboard or steerboard.
Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910
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See that musk-rat, how boldly he plunges into the stream, and, with his oarlike tail, stems the current till he gains in safety the sedges on the other side.
Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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