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rowlock

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Noun — A usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock.

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An alteration, based on row, of earlier oarlock, from Old English ārlōc, equivalent to oar + lock.

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