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Sailors Initially Select Oar

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noun

• a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward

• each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman

• a racing shell that is propelled by sculls

verb

• propel with sculls

28%7 Term for sailors or sailors' food
noun

• A salt-water crocodile (or estuarine crocodile).

• An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

• The saltwater fluke or dab.

22%5Sailors actively labouring, trimming sails initially
noun

• negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

• a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

• white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

• the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

adjective satellite

• (of speech) painful or bitter

verb

• add salt to

• sprinkle as if with salt

• add zest or liveliness to

• preserve with salt

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