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"
1Yet others pin the blame on how the crisis has been managed.
2She said it was hard to pin point people with extremist views.
3Through the legs he stuck a similar pin in a similar fashion.
4I said, 'The Austrian police are anxious to pin this on you.
5Everybody wanted to pin a case file on you and forget you.
1Right now I'm removing the right side break pedal and foot peg.
2Part of it is still hanging from the peg in the closet.
3The forwards market suggests speculative bets on the peg breaking are building.
4Next year she will launch an off-the-peg range at more affordable prices.
5And in one of the last of these holes was a peg.
1Not one failed to ship his oar, or drop it into the rowlock.
2The rowlock here's unsteady, can I just knock it in with the oar?
3Harwood was the first ter hear the clatter ov en oar slippin' in a rowlock.
4Some accident occurred, possibly the breaking of a rowlock, and they were carried into a rapid.
5Then, without any command, you will ship the oar; in other words, drop the loom into the rowlock.
1As I bent to the oarlock a weakness ran all through my body.
2Innis, who had broken his oarlock, sat erect; Wallace, at Number Five, was down.
3Reckless, he pulled an oar from an oarlock and swung it over his head.
4No paddle, no creaking oarlock, broke the stillness.
5Dr. von Koenigswald slipped the tholepin of an oarlock from its socket in the gunwale of the gilded dinghy.
1Dr. von Koenigswald slipped the tholepin of an oarlock from its socket in the gunwale of the gilded dinghy.
2One hundred yards more would have made all safe, though the boat three times pitched the oars from between the tholepins.
3Jamming his torch into the clutch of one of the tholepins, he seized the rifle and shot a quick glance ahead of him.
1If I get help 'from beyond,' I can thole the lash, Christina.
2The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack.
3They would never thole a new master, they said, and fully believed it.
4Lasses ought to sit still and thole wrang, until He undertakes their case.
5Figures in the scows stirred, and sweeps thudded against thole-pins.
6One is shorter than the other, each having a thole.
7Remember, he that has gude crops may thole some thistles.
8Maybe you should think about those immigration restrictions for s**thole countries? he quipped.
9But it had snapped both the thole-pins short off in their sockets and was useless.
10She lowered it quietly, stowed it, found and inserted the thole-pins, and shipped the paddles.
11No Scottish lad ever forgets the twenty-third Psalm, especially those who canna thole the paraphrases.
12There was a chink and click of a pair of oars moving on their thole-pins.
13The oarsman could not see even the thole pins.
14He simply cannot thole her to give look or word to any one but himself.
15I grant you that's the hardest thing to thole.
16I can thole a fair and square stan up fecht, but yon's a coward trick.
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