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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
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rollock)  , a
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device on the gunwale of a
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boat in or on which an
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oar rests, forming a fulcrum for the oar in
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rowing . The word is a corruption due to "
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row " of the earlier " oar-
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lock," O.E. drloc, a lock or enclosed
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place for an oar . The simplest
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form of
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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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toll, a
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young
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fir-
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tree), and by a swivel with two horns of metals, pivoted in the
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gun-
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wale or on an outrigger (see OAR) .

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