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oarage
oarage
English
Noun
oarage (uncountable)
- (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
- 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers (1900):
- The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:oarage.
- 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers (1900):
- (archaic, poetic) A sweeping motion that resembles rowing.
- 1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1927), page 184:
- […] the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:oarage.
- 1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1927), page 184:
- Equipment used for rowing.
- 1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill (1993), ISBN 9004096507, page 49:
- With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:oarage.
- 1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill (1993), ISBN 9004096507, page 49: