Mahogany vs Oar - What's the difference?
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(countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
(uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
A table made from mahogany wood.
* 1842 , Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
An oarsman; a rower.
(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
To row; to propel with oars.
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As nouns the difference between mahogany and oar
is that mahogany is (countable) any of various tropical american evergreen trees, of the genus swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood while oar is .As an adjective mahogany
is made of mahogany.mahogany
English
(wikipedia mahogany)Noun
citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
- Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany ?
Anagrams
*oar
English
(wikipedia oar)Noun
(en noun)- He is a good oar .
Synonyms
* (implement used to propel a boat) paddleDerived terms
* stick one's oar inVerb
(en verb)- Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.
