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 "
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 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 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.
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 .
6 One is shorter than the other, each having a thole .
7 Remember, he that has gude crops may thole some thistles.
8 Maybe you should think about those immigration restrictions for s** thole countries? he quipped.
9 But it had snapped both the thole - pins short off in their sockets and was useless.
10 She lowered it quietly, stowed it, found and inserted the thole - pins , and shipped the paddles.
11 No Scottish lad ever forgets the twenty-third Psalm, especially those who canna thole the paraphrases.
12 There was a chink and click of a pair of oars moving on their thole - pins .
13 The oarsman could not see even the thole pins.
14 He simply cannot thole her to give look or word to any one but himself.
15 I grant you that's the hardest thing to thole .
16 I can thole a fair and square stan up fecht, but yon's a coward trick.
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