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Meanings of oarlock in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "pin"
Examples for "pin"
1
Yet others pin the blame on how the crisis has been managed.
2
She said it was hard to pin point people with extremist views.
3
Through the legs he stuck a similar pin in a similar fashion.
4
I said, 'The Austrian police are anxious to pin this on you.
5
Everybody wanted to pin a case file on you and forget you.
1
Right now I'm removing the right side break pedal and foot peg.
2
Part of it is still hanging from the peg in the closet.
3
The forwards market suggests speculative bets on the peg breaking are building.
4
Next year she will launch an off-the-peg range at more affordable prices.
5
And in one of the last of these holes was a peg.
1
If I get help 'from beyond,' I can thole the lash, Christina.
2
The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack.
3
They would never thole a new master, they said, and fully believed it.
4
Lasses ought to sit still and thole wrang, until He undertakes their case.
5
Figures in the scows stirred, and sweeps thudded against thole-pins.
1
Not one failed to ship his oar, or drop it into the rowlock.
2
The rowlock here's unsteady, can I just knock it in with the oar?
3
Harwood was the first ter hear the clatter ov en oar slippin' in a rowlock.
4
Some accident occurred, possibly the breaking of a rowlock, and they were carried into a rapid.
5
Then, without any command, you will ship the oar; in other words, drop the loom into the rowlock.
1
Dr. von Koenigswald slipped the tholepin of an oarlock from its socket in the gunwale of the gilded dinghy.
2
One hundred yards more would have made all safe, though the boat three times pitched the oars from between the tholepins.
3
Jamming his torch into the clutch of one of the tholepins, he seized the rifle and shot a quick glance ahead of him.
Usage of oarlock in anglès
1
As I bent to the oarlock a weakness ran all through my body.
2
Innis, who had broken his oarlock, sat erect; Wallace, at Number Five, was down.
3
Reckless, he pulled an oar from an oarlock and swung it over his head.
4
No paddle, no creaking oarlock, broke the stillness.
5
Dr. von Koenigswald slipped the tholepin of an oarlock from its socket in the gunwale of the gilded dinghy.
6
Andy was rowing as hard as was his brother until he suddenly jumped his left oar out of the oarlock.
7
He tapped "Papa" on his belly with the steel oarlock, and "Papa" really did make a sound like a marimba.
8
Conrad yanked on the oars as he turned back, fear running through his arms now, and his starboard oar popped clear of its oarlock.
9
After an eternity of this it was dawn, and he secured it to the oarlock tab with the lanyard cut from his shirt tail.
10
He heard a new sound-oarlocks clacking rhythmically behind him to his right.
11
He had just painted it and the oarlocks were new this year.
12
Tranny shows Hiro how to snap the zodiac's oars into the oarlocks.
13
Grant picked up his paddles and fitted them into the oarlocks.
14
It was intensely still except for the creak of the oarlocks.
15
At that instant Lucile's keen ears caught the groan of oarlocks.
16
The faint, rhythmic sound of oarlocks came to his ears.