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棹さす棹差す掉さす [iK]
さおさす
1. [v5s,vi]
▶ to pole (a boat)
▶ to punt (a boat)
2. [v5s,vi]
▶ to swim with (the tide)
▶ to go with (the flow, the times, etc.)
3. [v5s,vi]
▶ to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2023-04-10 06:19:38  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2023-04-10 02:20:50  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11120054216
「掉さす」 は誤記です。

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 棹さす     │ 2,430 │ 52.6% │
│ 掉さす     │ 1,176 │ 25.5% │ - add, iK
│ 棹差す     │   793 │ 17.2% │
│ 掉差す     │     0 │  0.0% │
│ さおさす    │   218 │  4.7% │
├─ーーーーーーー─┼───────┼───────┤
│ 流れに棹さす  │   959 │ 46.5% │
│ 流れに掉さす  │   725 │ 35.2% │
│ 流れに棹差す  │   281 │ 13.6% │
│ 流れに掉差す  │     0 │  0.0% │
│ 流れにさおさす │    97 │  4.7% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>掉さす</keb>
+<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
3. A 2021-02-05 22:31:41  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2021-02-05 01:25:54  Alan Cheng <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
eij, daijr/s, nikk, etc.
棹差す	793
棹さす	2430
さおさす	218
  Comments:
koj and shinmeikai also mention また、時流にさからう意に誤用することがある, so I added a sense 3. Should this be tagged somehow as irregular?

https://kotobank.jp/word/流れに棹さす-588227
according to 国語に関する世論調査 in 2012, 59.4% of respondents thought 流れに棹さす meant "go against the tide"
  Diff:
@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>棹さす</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -11,0 +15 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -14 +18,11 @@
-<gloss>to swim with the tide</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5s;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>to swim with (the tide)</gloss>
+<gloss>to go with (the flow, the times, etc.)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5s;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)</gloss>
1. A 2008-11-21 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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