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  • Thumbnail for Oar (sport rowing)
    In rowing, oars are used to propel the boat. Oars differ from paddles in that they use a fixed or sliding fulcrum, an oarlock or rowlock attached to the...
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    motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically...
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  • tired of exercising one side can turn over and use the other, the change of action helping the limbs to recover. The hands act like oars, and do not waste...
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    (warship with two rows of oars) by placing two oarsmen on each oar, the quinquereme from a trireme by placing two oarsmen on the two uppermost levels (the...
    36 KB (4,707 words) - 18:22, 10 March 2024
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    xebecs and other oar-sail hybrids. Oars on ancient galleys were usually arranged in 15–30 pairs, from monoremes with a single line of oars to triremes with...
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  • Narr Verlag. Butzkamm, Wolfgang (2001). "Learning the language of loved ones: on the generative principle and the technique of mirroring". ELT Journal....
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    of oars, manned with one man per oar. The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each...
    49 KB (6,831 words) - 10:56, 19 May 2024
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    United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while...
    63 KB (6,992 words) - 17:19, 4 June 2024
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    Thwart (section Under oars)
    oarsman seated on each thwart, each of whom is working only one oar. The oars alternate on each side along the length of the boat. This allows a boat to...
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  • season of the One Piece anime series, the "Thriller Bark Chapter", was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Munehisa Sakai based on Eiichiro Oda's...
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    The name "forty" refers not to the number of oars, but to the number of rowers on each column of oars that propelled it, and at the size described it...
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  • propel a boat with oars 2.  (more precisely, as used at sea) to propel a boat with oars, where each rower handles two oars, one on each side of the boat...
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  • Pirates who model their outfits after him. He is a descendant of Oars. Little Oars Jr. is voiced by Kenji Hirai in the original Japanese version and...
    399 KB (57,183 words) - 17:46, 3 June 2024
  • course on which the boat is rowing: bow has a clear view ahead when looking over one's shoulder, whereas stroke may be able to steer well on a straight...
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    by rowing with one set of oars. Beyond 4.88 m (16 ft) it is feasible to have two or even three rowers, normally using a pair of oars. In some models...
    21 KB (2,795 words) - 21:50, 23 February 2024
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    over time. These include: One of the oldest forms of marine propulsion, oars have been found dating back to 5000-4500 BCE. Oars are used in rowing sports...
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  • boat, each rower has two oars or 'sculls', one on each side of the boat. Octuple (8x) A shell having 8 rowers with two oars each. Generally a training...
    44 KB (6,950 words) - 06:48, 12 May 2024
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    best visualised by an oar blade embedded in mud. Pressure on the oar often results in a highly viscous (more solid) thixotropic mud on the high pressure side...
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  • rabbit's shoulders. The term comes from the resemblance to a boat's oars at rest. In modern times, these are sometimes referred to as helicopter ears...
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    penteconter. It had one bench with 25 oars on each side, while in the late Roman Republic, it was equipped with two banks of oars (a bireme), remaining...
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