单词 | oarage |
释义 | oaragen. 1. Apparatus or fittings associated with oars; rowing equipment. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] rowage1717 oarage1739 1739 A. Strahan tr. Virgil First Æneid 22 He thro' the buxom Air Sails on the feather'd Oarage [L. remigio] of his Wings. 1828 J. Bailey Facciolati's Lex. Remigium, all that part of a ship's furniture which is connected with the rowing of it, or (as might be said) the oarage. 1865 A. C. Swinburne At Eleusis in Poems & Ballads 172 Like scaled oarage of a keen thin fish In seawater. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 234 So with her oarage [L. remigio] crippled, the ship makes slowly her way. 1905 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 25 141/1 The old view, that by παρεξειρεσία is meant the stern (and bow) of the ship beyond the oarage, is untenable. 1959 J. Gill Council of Florence iv. 89 There were accidents of various sorts, the breaking of booms, the fraying of stays, and a collision that damaged the oarage of one vessel. 1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 527/4 Hazards will persist as the ship tries out its complicated oarage in real waves. 2. The action of oars, rowing; movement of limbs, etc., in a manner resembling that of oars. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > movement like oars oarage1762 society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing rowingOE rowth1467 remigation1623 oarage1872 1762 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 544/1 Hands that with even oarage part and meet. 1835 R. Mant Brit. Months II. x. 398 Unus'd aloft to soar, but fleet With oarage of the handlike feet. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 7 They oared with gentle oarage From the dear-loved oaks of Derry. 1888 E. Warre in W. B. Woodgate Boating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 3 The first man..who essayed the oarage of his arms and legs. 1902 Times 22 Jan. 10/2 Herr Worlitzsch..propels himself on to the stage by the oarage of his feet as a despairing lover in a gondola. 1938 E. McCurdy tr. Leonardo da Vinci Notebks. (new ed.) I. xvii. 435 In this place the air becomes condensed and offers resistance to the oarage of the wing. 1953 E. S. Le Comte Yet Once More vi. 106 The medium itself is dense, like water, calls for swimming or oarage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1739 |
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