Oar is a long, flat wooden or composite implement used for rowing, typically held with both hands and pulled through the water to propel a boat. As a noun, it refers to the tool itself, the act of rowing with an oar, or the oar-blade unit. In pronunciation, the word is a single-syllable, with a long vowel sound that often rhymes with more, bore, or core in many dialects.
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