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oared
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "oared":- As we stepped into our six- oared boat the sun rose above the horizon, flooding the sea with gold and flashing on the terraces above Amalfi. - "Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III.", John Symonds.
- The first representatives we sent abroad, the Harvard four- oared crew of 1869, became so overtrained on the Thames on work which would have been only sufficient at home, that two of the four men had to be substituted. - "An American at Oxford", John Corbin.
- One of our first acts was to order a four- oared boat to be built, fitted with a lug- sail: she was called the Granta of Swansea. - "Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy", George Biddell Airy.