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Swiftly. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Ply swift and strong the oar. Southey.

A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. Longfellow.

A rowlock. I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.

regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. Addison. He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak.

of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. Roscommon.

Having tusks. "The scar indented by the tusky oar." Dryden.

y part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.

The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

hilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.

er genera of the family Belostomatidæ. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night.

Art of, or skill in, rowing; oarsmanship; specif., skill in managing the blade in the water, as distinguished from managing arms, body, etc., in the stroke.

lf. She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all! Shak. The whelming billow and the faithless oar. Gay.

A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. [Written also yaul.]