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Oarlock

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A usually U-shaped device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.

    "But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip."

  2. 2
    a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing wordnet

Etymology

From oar + lock.

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