rame
French → English
(maritime) Oar: a wooden tool with a flat blade used for rowing or steering a boat through water
Les rameurs cessent de nager et relèvent leurs rames dès que le commandement est donné.
(English) The rowers stop rowing and raise their oars as soon as the command is given.
Je rentrai précipitamment les rames dans le bateau pour éviter qu'elles ne soient emportées par le courant.
(English) I hastily pulled the oars into the boat to prevent them from being swept away by the current.
(informal) Laziness/Sluggishness: a colloquial term for feeling great fatigue or a lack of motivation to move
Monsieur avait la rame d’aller enterrer sa victime et a préféré laisser le corps sur place.
(English) The man was too lazy to go bury his victim and preferred to leave the body where it was.
Seule la rame de devoir changer de gîte l'empêchait de partir immédiatement de cet hôtel miteux.
(English) Only the laziness of having to change lodgings prevented him from leaving that dingy hotel immediately.
Entry ID: fr:en:rame · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary