rowlock

How To Use rowlock In A Sentence

• She rowed well for a dozen strokes and then one of the nylon rowlocks snapped.
• Two or three miles below this I had some difficulty in a rapid, as the pin of a rowlock lifted out of the socket when in the middle of rough water. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
• The larger sort do not require what we may call the outrigger rowlocks. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
• He saw the boat boys knocked about, and one of them put in irons for three days with nothing to eat for the crime of breaking a rowlock while pulling. MAUKI
• When you hear the moan of the rowlocks, do you urge him on like a cox?
• Sharpe heard a splash nearby and the groan of an oar in its rowlock. Sharpe's Prey
• The buccaneers made grummets, or rings, of it, for use in their row boats instead of tholes or rowlocks. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• All the way out and all the way back, the only sounds to be heard, apart from our conversation, were the thunk of the oars in the rowlocks and the splashing of the water as the boat moved along.
• On the morning of the second day the outboard motor packed up, and we had no rowlocks.
• He saw the boat boys knocked about, and one of them put in irons for three days with nothing to eat for the crime of breaking a rowlock while pulling. MAUKI