the rowlock acts as a fulcrum for the oar. On ordinary rowing craft, the rowlocks are attached to the gunwales. In the sport of rowing, the rowlocks are...

positions oriented in a horizontal alignment are called stretcher, header, rowlock stretcher, and rowlock. A rowlock stretcher is sometimes called a shiner."...

a strake that sits above the gunwale. (The term rowlock is often applied to an oar crutch.) A rowlock may be closed when, for instance, a boat is being...

was the washstrake added to increase the freeboard. It was pierced with rowlock cut-outs for the oars, so that the thwarts did not need to be set unusually...

of the brick exposed. Rowlock A brick laid on the long narrow side with the short end of the brick exposed. Shiner or rowlock stretcher A brick laid...

galley, an outrigger (or rigger) is a triangular frame that holds the rowlock (into which the oar is slotted) away from the saxboard (or gunwale in gig...

from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using rowlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two...

button), often made of leather, which stops the oar slipping past the rowlock. Oars usually have a handle about 150mm long, which may be a material sleeve...

of rowlock, secured with a nut, which prevents the oar from coming out of the rowlock. Also historically used to refer to the oarlock or rowlock. Swivel...

boundary, is called a crown Voussoir (a wedge-like construction block). A rowlock arch is formed by multiple concentric layers of voussoirs. Extrados (an...

the explanation of the coat of arms is "in a blue field with a silver rowlock." The coat of arms was designed by Teuvo-Pentti Pakkala and approved by...

Fórcola (Venetian dialect, plural Fórcole) is the typical Venetian rowlock providing a variety of fulcrum positions, each having its own effect on the...

a socket in the boat's gunwale, and the oar rests in the "U". See also rowlock. ocean liner See liner. officer's country The part of a naval vessel containing...

"Tholepin" of dory, also known as a rowlock....

"Whomper"; Toft is perhaps imaginary, though homonymic with toft, "thwart (n.), rowlock" – a small, very shy boy who appears in Moominvalley in November. Toft...

row, sow, allow /oʊ/ own, bow, row, sow, alow /ɒ/ acknowledge /ɒ/ or /ʌ/ rowlock unstressed /oʊ/ yellow, teabowl, landowner /aʊ/ peafowl, sundowner /əw/...

from paddles in that they use a fixed or sliding fulcrum, an oarlock or rowlock attached to the side of the boat, to transfer power from the handle to...

burning-mirror and the "collecting" hole of camera obscura phenomena to an oar in a rowlock to explain how the images were inverted: "When a bird flies in the air...

Johnstone deciding to go out in a rowing boat. However, the boat had no rowlocks to take the oars and Johnstone found himself being taken out to sea by...

wall of thin brick above two storefront entrances. A decorative band with rowlock course brick and terra cotta panels separate the ground floor from the...

landowner, and know. An exceptional pronunciation is /ɒ/ in knowledge and rowlock. There are many English heteronyms distinguished only by the pronunciation...

the dinghy for stowage. The only other essential pieces of hardware are rowlocks (also known as oarlocks). Conventionally, a dinghy will have an oar on...

the eventual winner. Shoe-wae-cae-mette, rowing with then-unusual swivel rowlocks, reached the final of the Stewards' but lost to London Rowing Club. Columbia...

door are a later addition; originally, the door was topped only with a rowlock course of brick. The south side has a shed roof covering what was the loading...

German modern pentathlete Remèr, a Venetian craftsman of traditional rowlocks and oars Remer, Minnesota, a small city in the United States Remer Township...

lifeboat first had to rescue the four men in the small boat. The boats rowlock jammed into the lifeboat fender, and had to be cut away with an axe, before...

uncommon. Furthermore, during the early Viking Age, oar ports replaced rowlocks, allowing oars to be stored while the ship was at sail and to provide better...

sloop 1,105 11 September 1931 sold for commercial service 1946 and renamed Rowlock, scrapped 1950 Foss  United States Navy Buckley destroyer escort 1,400...

the auxiliary sail also survived, so as the rudder, stern and the square rowlock for the stern oar. Preserved part of the ship is 9.5 m (31 ft) long, but...

to cross a river requires, if the boat is a rowboat, that the oars and rowlocks be present and unbroken, and that they fit each other. Many other qualifications...