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  • English Word Oak Definition The strong wood or timber of the oak.
  • English Word Oaken Definition Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.
  • English Word Oaker Definition See Ocher.
  • English Word Oakling Definition A young oak.
  • English Word Oakum Definition The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.
  • English Word Oakum Definition The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
  • English Word Oaky Definition Resembling oak; strong.
  • English Word Oar Definition To row.
  • English Word Oar Definition An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
  • English Word Oar Definition An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
  • English Word Oar Definition An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  • English Word Oar-footed Definition Having feet adapted for swimming.
  • English Word Oared Definition Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
  • English Word Oared Definition Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.
  • English Word Oared Definition Having feet adapted for swimming.
  • English Word Oared Definition of Oar
  • English Word Oarfish Definition The ribbon fish.
  • English Word Oarfoot Definition Any crustacean of the genus Remipes.
  • English Word Oaring Definition of Oar
  • English Word Oarless Definition Without oars.
  • English Word Oarlock Definition The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
  • English Word Oarsman Definition One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.
  • English Word Oarsmen Definition of Oarsman
  • English Word Oarsweed Definition Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.
  • English Word Oary Definition Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan's oary feet.
  • English Word Oases Definition of Oasis
  • English Word Oasis Definition A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
  • English Word Oast Definition A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.
  • English Word Oat Definition A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
  • English Word Oat Definition A musical pipe made of oat straw.