rowlock : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rowlock	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for rowlock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rowlock n a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing Synonym(s): peg, pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rowlock \Row"lock\ (? colloq. [?]), n. [For oarlock; AS. [b5]rloc, where the second part is skin to G. loch a hole, E. lock a fastening. See {Oar}, and {Lock}.] (Naut.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.