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Meaning of Oarlock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية محبس المجداف
Български ключ
Bosanski dol
Català escalamera
Deutsch Dolle
Español horquilla
Français dame de nage
Gaeilge pionna iomartha
Hrvatski dol
Italiano forcola scalmiera
Kurdî dol
Latina scalmus
Nederlands dol
Polski dulka
Português forqueta
Română furchet
Српски dol
Svenska årklyka årtull
ไทย เต่า
Türkçe ıskarmoz

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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