Crossword clues for oarsman
oarsman
- One having a row with characters regularly seen in madrasa in Middle Eastern country
- Stern-looking sport contestant
- A Roman senator originally abandoned one on the river
- Blade-wielder beheaded sailors in sultanate
- Boat mover
- Crew-team member
- Member of the crew team
- Rowing team member
- Stroke, for one
- Guy rowing
- A ransom (anag)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oarsman \Oars"man\ ([=o]rz"man), n.; pl. Oarsmen (-men). One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.
At the prow of the boat, rose one of the oarsmen.
--Longfellow.
Wiktionary
n. A man who rows a boat, either alone or with others
WordNet
n. someone who rows a boat [syn: rower]
Usage examples of "oarsman".
Propelled by eight burly oarsmen, it belonged to the Meldrith priests, and Astell and Azgar were in command.
Corvinus and Becco were picking their way between the oarsmen, carrying the tools, throwing them over the side to Musa and Polites.
Corvinus and Becco were picking their way among the oarsmen, carrying the tools, throwing them over the side to Musa and Polites.
Smaller galleys, called bergantines, carried only a third as many oarsmen as the galleot that they were now rowing across the Gulf of Cadiz.
Better that I, if I could, be chained to a bench, an oarsman slave, than he.
This had much to do with a lifelong iron regimen on his ergometer, the killer rowing machine used by international oarsmen the world over.
The rest of the party, including Gusher, returned to the boat near sundown and set off for Nyack, the sturdy oarsmen singing a merry song.
I left Corfu in the evening, and having a good breeze in my favour, I reached Otranto by day-break the following morning, without the oarsmen having had to row a stroke.
Jack had been in his right mind, and if he had known he would one day become involved in a Plan such as this one, he never would have divulged, to his fellow oarsmen, the information that he had grown up a mudlark in East London, and that accordingly he had much experience swimming in estuaries, among anchored ships, in the dark, with a knife in his teeth.
Because the Iz goon was a hundred yards wide and the shore-hugging cano well beyond paddle-reach, it seemed the winner was a foregone conclusion-until the glaring oarsman of the fading pair kly made a sleight re one-handed, and a quic -of-hand gestu slender cord unfurled in midair.
Oxus River aided by his black charger and Allah, the wretched raftsman and his oarsman, who refused to offer him safe passage on their raft each had a finger in his mouth.
He is selecting individual oarsmen for their apparent ability to win races.
Sunil continued to advance, backing the oarsman down the path towards the bow of the bigger houseboat, to which his shikara was moored.
Colman, with ten oarsmen, a headman, a steersman, a washerman, and two cooks, of whom Moung Nau was one.
Then he told Wiki to come with him, leaving Isaac and the other three oarsmen to look after the boat.