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Meanings of tholepin 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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        Examples for "pin"
        Examples for "pin"
        1
        Yet others pin the blame on how the crisis has been managed.
        Reuters
        2
        She said it was hard to pin point people with extremist views.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Through the legs he stuck a similar pin in a similar fashion.
        The Lure of the Labrador Wild
        4
        I said, 'The Austrian police are anxious to pin this on you.
        The Third Man
        5
        Everybody wanted to pin a case file on you and forget you.
        Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
        1
        Right now I'm removing the right side break pedal and foot peg.
        Wired
        2
        Part of it is still hanging from the peg in the closet.
        John Thorndyke's Cases / related by Christopher Jervis and edite...
        3
        The forwards market suggests speculative bets on the peg breaking are building.
        Reuters
        4
        Next year she will launch an off-the-peg range at more affordable prices.
        The Irish Times
        5
        And in one of the last of these holes was a peg.
        Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 04
        1
        If I get help 'from beyond,' I can thole the lash, Christina.
        A Knight of the Nets
        2
        The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack.
        The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
        3
        They would never thole a new master, they said, and fully believed it.
        Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
        4
        Lasses ought to sit still and thole wrang, until He undertakes their case.
        A Daughter of Fife
        5
        Figures in the scows stirred, and sweeps thudded against thole-pins.
        The Gun-Brand
        1
        Not one failed to ship his oar, or drop it into the rowlock.
        The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
        2
        The rowlock here's unsteady, can I just knock it in with the oar?
        Creatures That Once Were Men
        3
        Harwood was the first ter hear the clatter ov en oar slippin' in a rowlock.
        Wolves of the Sea / Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manusc...
        4
        Some accident occurred, possibly the breaking of a rowlock, and they were carried into a rapid.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
        5
        Then, without any command, you will ship the oar; in other words, drop the loom into the rowlock.
        The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
        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
        Usage of tholepin in English
        1
        Dr. von Koenigswald slipped the tholepin of an oarlock from its socket in the gunwale of the gilded dinghy.
        Cat’s Cradle
        2
        One hundred yards more would have made all safe, though the boat three times pitched the oars from between the tholepins.
        A Dream of the North Sea
        3
        Jamming his torch into the clutch of one of the tholepins, he seized the rifle and shot a quick glance ahead of him.
        The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for tholepin
        Tholepin through the time