Word: oar
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blade: cool way of saying oar. Also a way to refer to the painted part of the oar...
port: a starboard sweep rows with his or her left hand on the end of the oar handle...
starboard: a port sweep rows with his or her right hand on the end of the oar handle...
Morrison's supple prose makes such desperation palpable. Beloved is full of vivid images, freshly rendered. Here is the runaway slave facing the Ohio River, which stands between her and liberation: "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...
...replica of the fabled trireme, the 170- oar warship that brought glory to ancient Athens, undergoes sea trials in the Mediterranean...