Sentence examples for rowlock from inspiring English sources

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.

Viale Garibaldi 1257, Castello, bochaleri.it Piero Dri calls himself Il Forcolaio Matto, the mad oar-maker, and that is probably what his parents thought when he abandoned studying astronomy at university to devote himself to the ancient Venetian craft of sculpting, carving and whittling blocks of wood into the swirling form of the forcola, the crucial rowlock, the fulcrum for a gondolier's oar.

"And it broke my rigger [which carries the rowlock].

A snifter of Clearsky's Rowlock IPA, another popular local beer, was very citrusy on a lemon-lime axis and, if a bit too sweet, enjoyable.

"You just hear the clunking of the rowlocks, and you stop rowing and hear little splashings of the sea".

It seemed unlikely that Arthur Ransome's square-jawed children's sailing stories, set before the second world war, and teeming with halyards and centreboards, could be dramatised without seeming a load of old rowlocks.

My guess is that it's squeezed out of rowlocks in a shed in Henley, hence its rarity.