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Meanings of rowlock in English
Synonyms
Examples for "gate"
Examples for "gate"
1
This time, he pulled far enough forward to clear the chain-link gate.
2
Shows plenty of good signs but the wide gate is an issue.
3
Meaning: An idiosyncratic way of saying the gate area or boarding lounge.
4
That takes us another dangerous step further towards the EU exit gate.
5
Oh yes, of course it's possible, or it wouldn't be a gate.
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
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.
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 rowlock in English
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.
6
Someone had neglected to slip this piece of wood into the rowlock which held me by the foot.
7
But I set the steering oar in the sculling rowlock aft, and did what I could in that way.
8
Joe noticed that the oars were muffled with sennit, and that even the rowlock sockets were protected with leather.
9
Fortunately a blacksmith was found outside the village, who promised to repair the broken rowlock early upon the following morning.
10
Carved, too, was the baling bowl, and the loom of the oar was carved in curving lines from rowlock leather to hand.
11
Inside the usual rowlock a heavy ring was hung, kept in place by strong set-screws, but allowing full play in every direction.
12
When naval cutters are under sail the rowlock fittings are filled up with a piece of wood, which corresponds to the fitting.
13
There was the creaking sound of an oar, some squeaking from a rowlock, and then he saw the boat moving away from land.
14
I bade her hand me hers, and she did it instantly, sliding it along to my rowlock and losing but a single stroke.
15
Somebody had oiled the rowlocks, which no longer squeaked like awkward children.
16
By and by came a pleasant sound-oarsmoving in a boat's rowlocks.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Rowlock through the time