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Oars

To rest on one's oars. To take an interval of rest after hard work. A boating phrase.

To toss the oars.

To raise them vertically, resting on the handles. It is a form of salute.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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