Sentence examples for oarlock from inspiring English sources
noun
A device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.
The loom, or middle portion of the oar, rests either in a notch or oarlock (rowlock) or between thole pins on the gunwale (top edge) of the boat in order to serve as a fulcrum of the oar.
We tuck our bibs in and tuck in, yankA claw from a socket, a swimmeret from an oarlock,Bite and lick and suck, drool butter, devourIt before gross gluttony devours us.
(Rowing more precisely describes propelling a boat by use of an oar fixed in an oarlock).
These act more or less as an oarlock for his racquet handle as he shifts his grip for a forehand or a backhand.
The oars are the same length, but the distance between hands and oarlock, the lever arm, is longer amidships, because the ship is wider there.
Everything lines up perfectly, especially the fact that we found this very large oarlock on the main ballast pile".
The modes of movement of the axopodia often differ; for example, the marine pelagic organism Sticholonche has axopodia that move like oars, even rotating in basal sockets reminiscent of oarlocks.
Oarlocks knock in the dusk, a rowboat risesand settles, surges and slides.Under a great eucalyptus,a boy and girl feel around with their feetfor those small flattish stones so perfectfor scudding across the water.
1 I can imagine the silence when the world When did I get this bejawed look, Oarlocks knock in the dusk, a rowboat rises Sometimes we saw shadows of gods A thud.
Sleighbells and oarlocks have to be original He has invented a machine which makes thirty-three noises.
The teacher, Beth Kuter Pfenning, in reading the journals of her great-great-grandfather, a 19th-century farmer and business owner in the Adirondacks, saw that her forebear had bought oarlocks, hinting that he had perhaps been a boatbuilder as well.
