The oar fell out of its oarlock.
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Oarlock
Synonyms for "oarlock" (22 found)
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Translations
27 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- ключ noun (device to hold oars in place)
Catalan
1 entries- escalamera noun (device to hold oars in place)
Dutch
1 entries- dol noun (device to hold oars in place)
Faroese
1 entries- tollur noun (device to hold oars in place)
Finnish
2 entries- hankain noun (device to hold oars in place)
- svirveli noun (device to hold oars in place)
French
1 entries- dame de nage noun (device to hold oars in place)
German
1 entries- Dolle noun (device to hold oars in place)
Hungarian
1 entries- evezővilla noun (device to hold oars in place)
Irish
1 entries- pionna iomartha noun (device to hold oars in place)
Italian
2 entries- forcola noun (device to hold oars in place)
- scalmiera noun (device to hold oars in place)
Latin
1 entries- scalmus noun (device to hold oars in place)
Māori
1 entries- rōraka noun (device to hold oars in place)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tollepinne noun (device to hold oars in place)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tollepinne noun (device to hold oars in place)
Polish
1 entries- dulka noun (device to hold oars in place)
Portuguese
1 entries- forqueta noun (device to hold oars in place)
Romanian
1 entries- furchet noun (device to hold oars in place)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sòha noun (device to hold oars in place)
- со̀ха noun (device to hold oars in place)
Spanish
1 entries- horquilla noun (device to hold oars in place)
Swedish
3 entries- roddtull noun (device to hold oars in place)
- årklyka noun (device to hold oars in place)
- årtull noun (device to hold oars in place)
Tagalog
1 entries- lulubungan noun (device to hold oars in place)
Turkish
1 entries- ıskarmoz noun (device to hold oars in place)
Sample sentences
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.
Source: wiktionary
"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
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