Definition of "rowlocks" [rowlocks]

• Plural form of rowlock. (noun)

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• "It was all that was heard; the silence had made those in the boat silent; nothing but the dip of the oars and that quick mockery of the rowlocks from the wall said that anything was moving."
• "Yet they continued to stare into the blackness in the direction in which the boat had disappeared, listening to the steady click of the oars in the rowlocks until it faded away and ceased."
• "I made certain that it contained the proper equipment of oars, rowlocks, and sail."