different between oar vs currach

English

Etymology

From Old English ?r, from Proto-Germanic *air? (“oar”). Cognate to Old Norse ár.

Pronunciation

• In British & some other non-rhotic accents:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /o?/
  • Homophones: aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• In US & some other rhotic accents:
  • (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /??/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?r, IPA^(key): /o(?)?/
  • Homophones: ore, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

oar (plural oars)

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

   Synonym: paddle

2. An oarsman; a rower.

3. (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Derived terms

• stick one's oar in

Translations

Verb

oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)

1. (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• AOR, AoR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, aro, ora

West Frisian

Adjective

oar

1. other
2. different

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• feroarje

Further reading

• “oar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• curragh

Etymology

From Irish curach, corrach, from Proto-Celtic *kurukos (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???/, /?k???x/

Noun

currach (plural currachs)

1. (nautical) An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars.
   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 53:

     Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets.

Irish

Noun

currach f (genitive singular curraí, nominative plural curracha)

1. Alternative spelling of curach

Declension

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