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oarage|ˈɔərɪdʒ|
[f. oar n. + -age.]
1. The action of oars, rowing; movement of limbs like that of oars.
1762Gentl. Mag. 544 Hands that with even oarage part and meet. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 7 They oared with gentle oarage From the dear-loved oaks of Derry. 1888E. Warre in Woodgate Boating 3 The first man..who essayed the oarage of his arms and legs.
2. Apparatus or fittings of the nature of oars; outfit of oars; rowing apparatus.
1828J. 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. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 240 He plies along the Empyrean vast On th' oarage of his wings. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ball., At Eleusis 172 Like scaled oarage of a keen thin fish In seawater. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid v. 280 So with her oarage crippled, the ship makes slowly her way. |
