Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not supplied with oars; destitute or deprived of oars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without oars.
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Examples
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Floating in an oarless boat, they eventually arrived at the southern coast of France.
Anti-Catholicism 2009
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Floating in an oarless boat, they eventually arrived at the southern coast of France.
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He sits back in the oarless boat as other dead faces emerge, all white-eyed and wide-mouthed, with fatally wounded necks below them.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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He sits back in the oarless boat as other dead faces emerge, all white-eyed and wide-mouthed, with fatally wounded necks below them.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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He sits back in the oarless boat as other dead faces emerge, all white-eyed and wide-mouthed, with fatally wounded necks below them.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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He sits back in the oarless boat as other dead faces emerge, all white-eyed and wide-mouthed, with fatally wounded necks below them.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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One is that this group had escaped from the persecution of the early Church by the Jews, and the other main motive given is that they had been deliberately set adrift by their enemies in a rudderless and oarless vessel.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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One is that this group had escaped from the persecution of the early Church by the Jews, and the other main motive given is that they had been deliberately set adrift by their enemies in a rudderless and oarless vessel.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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It was a little boat, oarless, or not visibly propelled, and in it were her mother, and
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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Many curious inventions are alluded to in this last volume: diving bells, p. 533; gunpowder, p. 536; oarless and very swift boats; carriages without horses running at an extraordinary speed: "Item currus possunt fieri ut sine animali moveantur impetu inæstimabili," p. 533.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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