Wednesday 18 October 2017

OAR

oar |ɔː| noun
a pole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water: She pulled hard on the oars.
• an oarsman; a rower: I was stroke oar and John was in the bow.
verb [with object]
propel with or as if with oars; row: Oaring the sea like madmen |
[no object, with adverbial of direction] : Oaring through the weeds.
ORIGIN
Old English ār, of Germanic origin; related to Danish and Norwegian åre .

This post is part of the ABC Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Outdoor Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.

6 comments:

  1. great take on this week's out door theme. lovely photo.

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  2. We painted the oars in our tin boat red. That matches the red stripe on the outside of the boat. It also protects the wood in our wet environment. - Margy

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  3. Many years ago I've tried to row with an oar... I gave up ;-)

    Have a splendid, ♥-warming ABC-WEDNES-day / – week
    ♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ (abc-w-team)
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  4. I like the contrasting colors in the hull of the boat. Nice shot.
    Thanks for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2017/10/wind-and-water-water-and-wind.html

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