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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nautical) 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.
"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.
Use oarlock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oarlock means (nautical) A usually U-shaped device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing..
Common synonyms include rowlock, peg, pin, tholepin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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