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Meanings of oarlock in English

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A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.

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Usage of oarlock in English
1
As I bent to the oarlock a weakness ran all through my body.
The Left Hand of Darkness
2
Innis, who had broken his oarlock, sat erect; Wallace, at Number Five, was down.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
3
Reckless, he pulled an oar from an oarlock and swung it over his head.
Dagmar's daughter
4
No paddle, no creaking oarlock, broke the stillness.
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 5
5
Dr. von Koenigswald slipped the tholepin of an oarlock from its socket in the gunwale of the gilded dinghy.
Cat’s Cradle
6
Andy was rowing as hard as was his brother until he suddenly jumped his left oar out of the oarlock.
Frank and Andy Afloat; Or, The Cave on the Island
7
He tapped "Papa" on his belly with the steel oarlock, and "Papa" really did make a sound like a marimba.
Cat’s Cradle
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.
Amagansett
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.
And the deep blue sea
10
He heard a new sound-oarlocks clacking rhythmically behind him to his right.
The Anubis Gates
11
He had just painted it and the oarlocks were new this year.
Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island
12
Tranny shows Hiro how to snap the zodiac's oars into the oarlocks.
Snow Crash
13
Grant picked up his paddles and fitted them into the oarlocks.
Jurassic Park
14
It was intensely still except for the creak of the oarlocks.
Go home, stranger
15
At that instant Lucile's keen ears caught the groan of oarlocks.
The Blue Envelope
16
The faint, rhythmic sound of oarlocks came to his ears.
Quill's Window
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Translations for oarlock
Oarlock through the time