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n. - Skill in rowing.

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Usage examples (9)
  • Ruth displayed her oarsmanship to better advantage, for the oars were lighter.
  • He chaffed us about our oarsmanship in the lifeboats, saying the appearance of our oars wildly waving reminded him of the sails of a windmill.
  • You said that was an amply sufficient qualification, and that no aquatic reporter who respected himself and his readers, had ever so far degraded himself as to row in a boat...
  • There is hardly any pleasure like good oarsmanship.
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