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Oar vs Penteconter - What's the difference?

oar | penteconter |

As nouns the difference between oar and penteconter

is that oar is 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 while penteconter is (history|obsolete) a galley-type grecian vessel with fifty oars.

As a verb oar

is to row; to propel with oars.

oar

English

(wikipedia oar)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • He is a good oar .
  • (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

    • Synonyms

    * (implement used to propel a boat) paddle

    Derived terms

    * stick one's oar in

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To row; to propel with oars.
  • *
    • 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

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    penteconter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pentaconter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (history, obsolete) A galley-type Grecian vessel with fifty oars.

    • Coordinate terms

    * unireme/monoreme * bireme * trireme * quadrireme * quinquereme/pentere * polyreme

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