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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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    Rowing (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically...
    26 KB (3,644 words) - 21:15, 18 September 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (362 words) - 21:03, 17 March 2023
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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 (6,840 words) - 23:48, 21 November 2024
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    Galley (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    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...
    124 KB (16,117 words) - 21:32, 26 October 2024
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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 (4,711 words) - 17:19, 22 October 2024
  • 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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    name "forty" refers not to the number of oars, but to the number of rowers on each vertical "column" of oars that propelled it, and at the size described...
    19 KB (2,159 words) - 19:32, 1 November 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 rowlocks, while...
    65 KB (7,154 words) - 09:10, 15 October 2024
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    their oars removed, one on the port and the other on the starboard side, and then these had been lashed together on the sides thus left bare. On these...
    5 KB (756 words) - 22:43, 28 October 2024
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    Thwart (section Under oars)
    : 1148 : 149  In a boat propelled by oars, the thwart has to be positioned with the right geometry for the oar to be worked efficiently and comfortably...
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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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  • 6, 2022. On April 5, 2022, it was announced that the series would return on April 17, 2022, with the airing of episode 1014. Like the rest of the series...
    436 KB (2,201 words) - 06:58, 23 November 2024
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    under oars. In light winds, paddles were used as these created less noise than oars. Boats used strictly for whaling often used only a long steering oar, while...
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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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  • 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...
    429 KB (59,807 words) - 19:36, 19 November 2024
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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...
    51 KB (8,470 words) - 18:48, 31 August 2024
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    to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars. Herodotus, in the 5th century BC, was sure that they still existed in his...
    6 KB (717 words) - 09:25, 17 November 2024
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    penned one of the most moving war poems of his generation -- Plava grobnica or The Blue Sea Tomb. Hold on, Imperial galleons! Hamper your oars! Tread...
    4 KB (659 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2023
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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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