oarswivel (or swivel)

A kind of rowlock, consisting of a pivoted socket for the shaft of an oar on the gunwale of a boat. 2. In brewing , a blade or paddle with which the oary (or'i), a . [ oar1 + -y1.] Having the form mash is stirred. E. H. Knight. -3. In zoöl., an oar-like appendage of an animal used for swimming, as the leg or antenna of an insect or crustacean, one of the parapodia of annelids, etc.-4. One who uses an oar; an oarsman; also, a waterman. [Colloq.] Tarlton, being one Sunday at court all day, caused a paire of oares to tend him, who at night called on him to be gone. Tarlton, being a carousing, drunk so long to the watermen that one of them was bumpsie; and so indeede were all three for the most part. Tarlton's Jests (1611). ( Hall i well.) Dorsal oars, in zoöl. See def. 3, and no to podium. Muffled oars. See mufled. - Oars! the order to lay on oars. To back the oars, bend to the oars, boat the parsee the verso lie on one's cars, to suspend cing inner each oa or serving the purpose of an oar. [Rare.] The swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. Milton , P. L., vii. 440.