a long pole with a flat blade at one end that is used to move a boat through water:
He pulled as hard as he could on the oars. * We took one oar each and rowed quickly to the shore.
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IDIOMS
put / stick your oar in (BrE, informal) to give your opinion, advice, etc. without being asked and when it is probably not wanted
SYNINTERFERE:
I was getting along very nicely until Patrick stuck his oar in.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for oar is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is oar a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, oar is tagged as noun.
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