Oar vs Hoar - What's the difference?
oar | hoar |
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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A white or greyish-white colour.
Hoariness; antiquity.
* Burke
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
* Spenser
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
* 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
* Byron
(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
(obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
As nouns the difference between oar and hoar
is that oar is while hoar is a white or greyish-white colour.As an adjective hoar is
of a white or greyish-white colour.As a verb hoar is
(obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.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.
Anagrams
* * * ----hoar
English
Noun
(en noun)- (BDCADC)
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Adjective
(-)- hoar waters
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
- Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
- Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
- Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
- old trees with trunks all hoar
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Derived terms
* hoarfrost * hoary * hoaredSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.