Citations:oarage

Noun: "(archaic) the act of using oars; rowing"

 * 1900 — William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers (1900):
 * The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.
 * 1922 — Shane Leslie, The Oppidan, Charles Scribner's Sons (1922), page 320:
 * Meantime, he offered her oarage on the Thames, and protection in any part of the Universe.

Noun: "(archaic, poetic) a sweeping motion that resembles rowing"

 * 1900 — Rupert Hughes, Contemporary American Composers, L. C. Page and Company (1990), page 68:
 * And yet quite comparable with this seems Kelley's device to indicate the oarage of the genie's mighty wings as he disappears into the sky: liquid glissandos on the upper harp-strings, with chromatic runs upon the elaborately divided violins, at length changed to sustained and most ethereally fluty harmonics.
 * 1907 — Virgil, The Æneid (trans. E. Fairfax Taylor), J. M. Dent & Sons (1910):
 * Here, touching first the wished-for land again,
 * To thee, great Phoebus, and thy guardian might,
 * He vowed, and bade as offerings to remain,
 * The oarage of his wings, and built a stately fane.
 * 1909 — Lucius Apuleius, The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura (trans. H. E. Butler), Clarendon Press (1909), page 161:
 * Thence he gazes down on the world, staying awhile in that far height the ceaseless oarage of his wings and, poised almost motionless with hovering flight, looks all around him and seeks what prey he shall choose whereon to swoop sudden like a thunderbolt from heaven on high.
 * 1927 — C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1927), page 184:
 * the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.

Noun: "equipment used for rowing"

 * 1971 — Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, Johns Hopkins University Press (1995), ISBN 0801851300, page 53:
 * First, some introductory remarks on the oarage of galleys as revealed by the full span of their history.
 * 1990 — Brian Caven, Dionysius I: War-Lord of Sicily, Yale University Press (1990), ISBN 9780300045079, page 96:
 * It is a reasonably safe assumption that the design of these earliest 'fivers' derived directly from that of the trireme, involving a relatively small increase in the size and strength of the hull, in order to accommodate double-banking and the two upper tiers of oars, thus giving (very roughly) five times the oarage of a penteconter (50 oars), from which the trireme (three times the oarage) had developed.
 * 1993 — H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill (1993), ISBN 9004096507, page 49:
 * With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length
 * 1995 — Robert Gardiner, The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times, Conway Maritime Press (1995), ISBN 9780851776347, page 178:
 * Although the painters, as already noted, are not averse to emphasising, even exaggerating, the oarage of their galleys to suggest power and speed, they rarely depict the complete two-level rowing complement;