Bible dictionaries
Oar
What Bible dictionaries say about “Oar”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Oar - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
OAR, n. An instrument for rowing boats, being a piece of timber round or square at one end, and flat at the other. The round end is the handle, and the flat end the blade.
To boat the oars, in seamanship, to cease rowing and lay the oars in the boat.
To ship the oars, to place them in the row-locks.
OAR, v.i. To row.
OAR, v.t. To impel by rowing.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
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See SHIPS AND BOATS, II, 2, (3).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915