Meaning of Oarlock | Babel Free
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
Kurdî
dol
Latina
scalmus
Nederlands
dol
Polski
dulka
Português
forqueta
Română
furchet
Српски
dol
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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