rowlock BrE
oarlock AmE

One oar hung in the rowlock; the other had gone.

I've done one or two little jobs on her besides the rowlock.'

Rowlock - A course with the long dimension parallel to the wall and the small face looking outward.

Also historically used to refer to the oarlock or rowlock.

The nut which screws onto the top of the pin holding the Rowlock in place.

For a 7 feet oar the balance point is about 12 inches outboard of the rowlock.

She groaned pitifully as her hand struck a rowlock.

The vertical metal rod on which the rowlock rotates.

Jarred against the rowlock, it smashed the man's ribcage.

He had gone and I heard a faint splashing from the sea and the squeak of an rowlock.

Rowlock: A brick laid on the long narrow side with the short end of the brick exposed.

She was renamed SS Rowlock and continued in commercial service until 1950.

Two headers of brock are placed above the windows to form rowlock arches.

Didn't you say he invented the rowlock?"

Sometimes on narrow, faster rowboats for protected waters outriggers are added to increase rowlock separation.

He pulled one of the oars out of its rowlock by turning its end into the boat and pulling it clear.

One pair of oars and rowlocks or a sculling oar and rowlock.

The Rowlock is attached with a swivelling pin to the gunwhale in a row boat.

And up there a bit", he pointed toward the rear yard, "is a Rowlock and Checkerboard pattern.

Steve rose, inserted the oar in the stern rowlock and fishtailed the boat southwards, parallel with the shore.

Differs from a paddle by being longer and gaining leverage by passing through a rowlock which acts as a fulcrum to produce forward motion.

In performance rowing craft, the rowlock is usually extended outboard on a "rigger" to allow the use of a longer oar for increased power.

Where the oar connects to the boat there is a "collar" which stops the oar slipping past the rowlock.

As the position of the rower's centre of gravity changes, the force exerted on the stretcher, seat and rowlock is monitored.

Mason silently unshipped his oar and put it in the rowlock, then in time with Joseph, begun to row.

I felt with my hands and found the closest oarlock.

One started to slip through the oarlock into the water.

The arms shows two black oarlocks on a yellow field.

Most notable of all, the team found a large metal oarlock a foot long.

It was going to take me a while to get used to having just a couple of pegs for an oarlock.

As I bent to the oarlock a weakness ran all through my body.

Max asked as he put his oar in the oarlock.

And down in her oarlock I stowed my job boom.

As he turned off the motor, Harry caught the click of oarlocks.

I heard an oarlock squeak and a splash - across the water.

The oarlocks had been muffled, so they moved almost soundlessly.

It was into this oarlock that he would slip his rifle if trouble came.

"Come with us," I said, "and we will make you oarlock makers of men."

The oarlocks were muffled, to prevent any sound of his rowing from being heard.

The parts he does not make are the extras like the oar and the oarlock.

It was the creak of an oar in an oarlock.

Also historically used to refer to the oarlock or rowlock.

A slender pole which is attached to a boat at the Oarlock.

It was the noise of oars working desperately in oarlocks.

They would not fit the oarlocks, but she could pole with one of them, she thought.

Grant picked up his paddles and fitted them into the oarlocks.

The arms show a black oarlock from a rowing boat on a yellow background.

One of the oarlocks snapped and flew off into the water would the swivel itself go next?

As it drew closer, the sleuths heard the rattle of oarlocks.

The button stops the oar from slipping through the oarlock.