oarmann.
/ˈɔːmən/, U.S. /ˈɔrm(ə)n/ = oarsman n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman
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1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 746 I..craued at his hands that it would please him..to supply me of his company, with oare men, artificers, and others.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 56 Like vnto our Ower-men, looke one way, and row another.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xi. §4. 317 The Oare-men, and Rowers of her Barge.
1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 263 [They] carry six Men, viz. the Harponeer in the Fore-part of the Boat, four Oar-men, and the Steers-man.
1818 H. H. Milman Samor vii. 173 The homage fawn'd By her fair handmaids, and her oarmen gay.
a1859 J. M. Legaré Du Saye in Coll. Poems ii. 158 Close to the shore, the oar-man's grasp Essays the skiff to float.
1890 L. Campbell tr. Aeschylus Persians 51 Myriad oarmen from the mere, Strong to row and skilled to steer.
2001 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 8 Apr. c1 We watch in wonder as Bill the oarman on the boat ahead of us, dives off, leaving his passenger Peter alone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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