Definitions
a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
Word origin
From oar + lock.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rowboat pivot”7 letters
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