different between oar vs rudder

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

Etymology

From Middle English rodder, rother, ruder, from Old English r?þor (“oar, rudder”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?þr, from Proto-Germanic *r?þr? (“oar, rudder”) (compare Dutch and West Frisian roer, German Ruder), from Proto-Germanic *r?an?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?reh?- (“to row”) + Proto-Germanic *-þr?, *-þraz, instrumental suffix. Akin to Old English r?wan (“to row”). More at r?wan, -þor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?(r)

Noun

rudder (plural rudders)

1. (nautical) An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
2. (aeronautics) A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
3. A riddle or sieve.
4. (figuratively) That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
   • Hudibras

     For rhyme the rudder is of verses.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tiller

Middle English

Noun

rudder

1. Alternative form of rother (“bovine”)