what is an oar????

The sticks you use to paddle a boat. What you would use to row a boat.

2007-07-08 17:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by anonymous100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Few people seem to realise the difference between a paddle and an oar. Neither has to be made of wood but that is a tradional choice of material. Both paddle and oar are basically instruments to push water backwards in order to get the reaction of the boat moving fowards. You use a paddle without any pivot point but an oar can be used in many ways using some poin on the boat as a pivot. In the famous Thames boat race you see 8 guys with oars and one person who steers the boat with a rudder. An oar is normally but not always pivoted in a rowlock (pronounced rollok) which is affixed somehow on the side of the boat. However a tradional way of using a single oar is to skull over the stern of the boat moving the oar blade side to side setting an angle in each stroke so that water is pushed back and the boat is propelled forwards. When you use a paddle you do not use any point of pivot and thus you need two hands to hold the paddle and push back into the water. Though normally associated with a canoe, you can paddle any boat.

2007-07-08 20:06:12 · answer #2 · answered by oldhombre 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋

An oar is what is used to row a rowboat. It is not a paddle. A paddle is used to row a canoe. The difference is an oar is longer, the blade on an oar is narrower and the shaft of an oar is round all the way to the end including the handle. 2 oars are used at the same time by the same person. The oars go in oar locks, which attach them to the boat.

2007-07-08 17:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋

oar: a pole with a flat blade, pivoting in an oar lock, used to row a boat through water

idioms:

put in one's oar = give an opinion without being asked
rest on one's oars = relax

2007-07-08 17:07:53 · answer #4 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

The stick of wood with a bigger part on the end that is used to row the boat and make it go - there are usually a few on one boat - always an even amount

2007-07-08 17:07:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋

The paddles to row a boat.

2007-07-08 17:11:29 · answer #6 · answered by Rina 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋

its the stick that you hold to paddle the boat to move. It has a flat end like the end of a beavers tail.

2007-07-08 17:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by wk6pack 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋

the sticks that u use to row a boat. those thing that have those flat ends

2007-07-08 17:06:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋

a device used to propel a vessel through viscus fluids

2007-07-08 17:06:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋

If you don't know, stay out of the boat.
They are back up tools, for when your motor dyes out.
And don;t forget to wear your life jacket.

2007-07-08 17:12:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

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