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ROWLOCK (pronounced rullock or rollock)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 788 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROWLOCK (pronounced rullock or See also:rollock)  , a See also:device on the gunwale of a See also:boat in or on which an See also:oar rests, forming a fulcrum for the oar in See also:rowing . The word is a corruption due to " See also:row " of the earlier " oar-See also:lock," O.E. drloc, a lock or enclosed See also:place for an oar . The simplest See also:form of See also: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. See also:toll, a See also:young See also:fir-See also:tree), and by a swivel with two horns of metals, pivoted in the See also:gun-See also:wale or on an outrigger (see OAR) .

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