ROWLOCK (pronounced rullock or rollock) , a device on the gunwale of a boat in or on which an oar rests, forming a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. The word is a corruption due to " row " of the earlier " oar-lock," O.E. drloc, a lock or enclosed
for an oar. The simplest form of rowlock is a notch, square or rounded, on the gunwale, in which the oar rests; other kinds are formed by two pins or pegs, " thole pins " (thole being ultimately the same word as Norw.
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