Usually means: Paddles used for propelling boats.
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  1. oars: Merriam-Webster
  2. oars: Collins English Dictionary
  3. oars: Vocabulary.com
  4. Oars, oar's, oars: Wordnik
  5. oars: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. oars: Wiktionary
  7. oars: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. OARS, oars: Dictionary.com
  9. oars: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Oars: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Oars: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. oars: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. OARS: Financial dictionary

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  1. oars: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (OAR)

noun:  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.
noun:  An oarsman; a rower.
noun:  (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
verb:  (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
noun:  Initialism of original aspect ratio. [(cinematography) The aspect ratio of the rectangular shape that the director intended his or her motion picture to be viewed in, as opposed to modified aspect ratio.]
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