oarlock
awr lok
- n a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- Against an oarlock, maybe yes, but a drop of cod liver squeezings .
- Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock.
- One Japanese masseur received a twelve-year suspension for prescribing a forbidden herbal remedy, and a sheared oarlock gate on a French eight-oar boat showed all the marks .