Propelled a shell
The crossword clue "Propelled a shell" is answered by OARED, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OARED
Every other clue in this collection answered by OARED, most used first.
- Rowed - used 105 times, most recently in 2025
- Rowed a boat - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Propelled a rowboat - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Paddled - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Propelled a dinghy - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Had a row? - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Sculled - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
- Propelled a boat - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Used one's scull - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Propelled a scull - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Toiled in the galley - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Rowed, as a boat - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Did galley work - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Joined the crew - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Took part in a regatta - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Like galleys - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Propelled a canoe - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Propelled a wherry - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Shell out - SPEND, used 69 times
- Come out of one's shell - HATCH, used 21 times
- Spiral shell - CONCH, used 16 times
- Propelled a gondola - POLED, used 12 times
- Propelled a raft - POLED, used 11 times
- Propelled, as a gondola - POLED, used 10 times
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