Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet OAR

Definition av OAR

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• In sculling, each rower holds two oars, one in each hand, while in sweep rowing each rower holds one oar with both hands.
• They were still sail and oar boats, fitted with hoops and canvas tilts for the comfort of their passengers.
• A paddle is different from an oar (which can be similar in shape and perform the same function via rowing) – an oar is attached to the watercraft via a fulcrum.
• Oarlocks are on the gunwale of a boat and they support the oar and give force to the rower's stroke.
• It was once used to reference a phallus-shaped pin stuck in the edging of a row boat to act as a pivot for the oar (also known as a "thole pin" or "dole pin").
• In rowing the oar is connected to the vessel by means of a pivot point for the oar, either an oarlock, or a thole.
• Whilst this is substantially less effective than a bladed oar or paddle, it is sufficient to keep the boat moving.
• It is typically propelled by a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, in a sculling manner, and also acts as the rudder.
• The term is particularly associated with the highly skilled men who operated the unpowered lighters moved by oar and water currents in the Port of London.
• As the car speeds around a curve, torque vectored to the outside rear wheel will push the rear end around the curve faster, just as paddling the outside oar of a row boat faster than the inside oar will cause the row boat to turn, to minimize the understeer common in front-heavy vehicles.
• A third boat was built in 1899 but by then surfboats powered by oar and sail had been largely superseded by lifeboats.
• Later whaleboats usually could operate under sail or oar - American whaling crews in particular obtained better results by making their first approach to a whale under sail, then quickly unstepping the mast and using oars thereafter.
• He is Australia's most awarded oarsman, having made appearances at six Olympic games (for three gold and one bronze medal); eleven World Championships (for seven world titles including one in each of the five sweep oar events); four Rowing World Cups (for two titles) and eighteen state representative King's Cup appearances – the Australian blue riband men's VIII event, (for fifteen victories, ten as stroke).
• Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern.
• Sweep oar rowing is only allowed at J15 and older for both boys and for girls, due to possible issues of asymmetric muscle development (coxswains excepted).
• The "scull" portion means that the rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only one side (not feasible for singles events).
• There may have been a rope ferry at one time, but in the 20th century it was a sculled ferry (rowed by a single oar at the stern) right into the 1950s when the ferry boat became motorised.
• A shrew emerges and scares away the duo into the river, and introduces himself as Log-a-log Big Club, a former village leader, escaped oar slave, and currently a ferryman.
• Coxless four: a competitive event in the sport of rowing where a boat is propelled by four rowers, each with one oar.
• In the epic, Odysseus is instructed by Tiresias to take an oar from his ship and to walk inland until he finds a "land that knows nothing of the sea", where the oar would be mistaken for a winnowing shovel.

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