The oar fell out of its oarlock.
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Oarlock
Synonyms for "oarlock" (23 found)
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2 entriesholdermarine hardware
More specific
1 entriesgate oarlock
Collocations
5 entriesgate oarlockoarlock assemblyoarlock bracketoarlock mechanismoarlock pin
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2 entriesDerivations
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3 total sentences available.
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.
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"No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad." Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller. Tranny shows Hiro how to snap zodiac's oars into the oarlocks.
Source: wiktionary