Crossword-Solution: ROWLOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rowlock | n. | 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. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ROWLOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| device on a boat that holds an oar in place | 1 answer |
| OAR pin and rester | 2 answers |
| tholepin | 2 answers |
| grummet | 3 answers |
| Grommet | 8 answers |
| BOAT, part of | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ROWLOCK (5)
Except for the ceaseless murmur of the insect life about them the night was absolutely still--so still that the striking of the ships' bells in the harbor came to them sharply across the surface of the water, and they could hear from time to time the splash of some great fish and the steady creaking of an oar in a rowlock that grew fainter and fainter as it grew further away, until it was drowned in the distance.
Fast! Come! Thrice double fare if you follow her true To her own palace door.” There was plashing of oar And rattle of rowlock.
There was no splash of oar or rattle of rowlock; swiftly, silently, with an air of stately power and pride, the lovely pageant came, passed, and disappeared under the shining evening sky and the gathering shadows of “the dim, rich city.” I never saw, or expect to see, anything of its kind so beautiful.
Getting out cautiously over the stern he succeeded in touching the top of the rock, and, thus lightened, the _Dean_ shot forward, though not before Hillers, who had not let go of the stern rowlock, was able to leap on board.
Our oars had fortunately remained in the rowlocks, and grasping them, without waiting to haul in the hundred feet of line trailing in the current, we made for the left wall, where I managed to leap out on a shelf and catch the rope over a projection, before the _Cañonita_, unharmed, dashed up to the spot; her only mishap was the loss of a rowlock and two oars.