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Definition of Rowlocks
1. rowlock [n] - See also: rowlock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowlocks
Literary usage of Rowlocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Life-boat, and Its Work by Richard Lewis (1874)
"QUALITIES REQUIRED IN OARS FOR LIFE-BOATS—LIGHTNESS, STIFFNESS, STRENGTH,
LENGTH—HEIGHT OF rowlocks—DRAWINGS AND DESCRIPTION OF SWIVEL ROWING CRUTCHES USED ..."
2. Alfred Tennyson by Arthur Christopher Benson (1907)
"... but by the more irregular and natural beat of homely things, the ticking of
clocks, the thud of oars in rowlocks, the clang and clink of hammers, ..."
3. Alfred Tennyson by Arthur Christopher Benson (1907)
"... but by the more irregular and natural beat of homely things, the ticking of
clocks, the thud of oars in rowlocks, the clang and clink of hammers, ..."
4. The Clerks' and Conveyancers' Assistant: A Collection of Forms of by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, Clarence Frank Birdseye (1899)
"The party of the second part agrees to pay to the said party of the first part
for each pair of such improved rowlocks which he shall manufacture, ..."
5. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1859)
"That it is desirable that in the case of all light boats strings be placed across
the rowlocks before they go on the river. " 7. That it is desirable that ..."
6. History of the Life-boat, and Its Work by Richard Lewis (1874)
"QUALITIES REQUIRED IN OARS FOR LIFE-BOATS—LIGHTNESS, STIFFNESS, STRENGTH,
LENGTH—HEIGHT OF rowlocks—DRAWINGS AND DESCRIPTION OF SWIVEL ROWING CRUTCHES USED ..."
7. Alfred Tennyson by Arthur Christopher Benson (1907)
"... but by the more irregular and natural beat of homely things, the ticking of
clocks, the thud of oars in rowlocks, the clang and clink of hammers, ..."
8. Alfred Tennyson by Arthur Christopher Benson (1907)
"... but by the more irregular and natural beat of homely things, the ticking of
clocks, the thud of oars in rowlocks, the clang and clink of hammers, ..."
9. The Clerks' and Conveyancers' Assistant: A Collection of Forms of by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, Clarence Frank Birdseye (1899)
"The party of the second part agrees to pay to the said party of the first part
for each pair of such improved rowlocks which he shall manufacture, ..."
10. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1859)
"That it is desirable that in the case of all light boats strings be placed across
the rowlocks before they go on the river. " 7. That it is desirable that ..."
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