How To Use Rowlock In A Sentence
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She rowed well for a dozen strokes and then one of the nylon rowlocks snapped.
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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
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The larger sort do not require what we may call the outrigger rowlocks.
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
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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
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When you hear the moan of the rowlocks, do you urge him on like a cox?
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Sharpe heard a splash nearby and the groan of an oar in its rowlock.
Sharpe's Prey
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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.
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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.
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On the morning of the second day the outboard motor packed up, and we had no rowlocks.
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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
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High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat -- a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. 2.
Chapter 29
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The second year included rowlock and bonded segmental arches; blocking, toothing, and corbeling; building and bonding of vaulted walls; polygonal and circular walls, piers and chimneys; fire-places and flues.
One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America
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The cup-boy is a sun rising from the dark underworld symbolised by his collar; his cheek-mole is a crumb of ambergris, his nose is a scymitar grided at the curve; his lower lip is a jujube; his teeth are the Pleiades or hailstones; his browlocks are scorpions; his young hair on the upper lip is an emerald; his side beard is a swarm of ants or a Lám
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Jarred against the rowlock, it smashed the man's ribcage.
Stormwarden
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Although both carbon fibre oars were smashed to pieces and the stainless rowlock pins bent, the crew had two spare oars on board and managed to repair the rowlocks.
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Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged.
Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
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The men at the cordelle walked faster, the men at the pole pushed harder, and, there being here a chance to use them, two great sweep-oars were fastened in the rowlocks, and, four men at each oar, we went forward at such a gait that the water curled back from our prow in two foaming streams, and before many minutes we were running our nose into the bank at the foot of Mulberry Hill.
The Rose of Old St. Louis
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The oars of Norwegian boats are worked not in rowlocks, or crutches, or between thole pins, as at home, but on a single thole pin, to which they are attached by a "strop" or loop.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
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The breaking of an oar, the loss of a rowlock, or the slightest knock of his rotten boat against a rock, and
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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The crew had two spare oars on board and managed to repair the rowlocks.
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And upon the boat, clinging to that rowlock a veil belonging to her.
An American Tragedy
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There are more options with soldier courses, rowlocks, headers, bonds, etc. in their final form in the wall.
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Their plan was as follows: The men were each to take their oar, cushion, and rowlock thong, and, going overland from Corinth to the sea on the Athenian side, to get to Megara as quickly as they could, and launching forty vessels, which happened to be in the docks at Nisaea, to sail at once to Piraeus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Although both carbon fibre oars were smashed to pieces and the stainless rowlock pins bent, the crew had two spare oars on board and managed to repair the rowlocks.
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I've done one or two little jobs on her besides the rowlock.
Five Have Plenty Of Fun
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There was a rhythmic creaking from the rowlocks and a louder sound of water from under the bows.
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Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged.
Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
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She did not know, and it concerned her little; for boats, and the sea, and the things and happenings of the sea were of far more vital interest to her than men, and the next moment she was staring through the warm tropic darkness at the loom of the sails and the steady green of the moving sidelight, and listening eagerly to the click of the sweeps in the rowlocks.
Chapter 15
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Also, how easy to take from the head of Roberta two or three hairs and thread them between the sides of the camera, or about the rowlock to which her veil had been attached.
An American Tragedy
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Frequently afterwards, according to the legend, the boat was seen returning to its moorings and the sound of the oars grinding in the rowlocks could be clearly heard.
