oarlock

The inclusion of oarlocks, punting poles, and grappling hooks in the previous excerpt relates to Faris's claim that magical realist texts contain a "strong presence of the phenomenal world" (167).

2010); OARLOCK, supra note 1, [paragraph]16.03; Jarred G.

the oarlock sinking in the water And the boat's stutter and glide

John Oarlock, the mid- morning jock at Tay, recalled: "The girls were mental, like a whirlwind.

On the other hand, it is too bad to have lost from the category 'accessory' the words oarlock and thole, attested s.v.

Dentist Jim didn't notice that it was back in the oarlock, however, until we were through the rapid and rotating in an eddy.

19-20 event is over, more than 8,000 competitors will have rowed in what the Boston Globe calls "the global Order of the Oarlock."

I don't remember seeing him get into the boat, but suddenly the pale rectangle of the dock was empty and undisturbed and the dark bulk of the boat was gone and there was just the steady creak and thump of a loose oarlock bumping against the wood.

His snores rattled the oarlocks, but didn't seem to have an effect on the fish, as they continued to hammer my Professor No.

Nick heard the oarlocks of the other boat quite a way ahead of them in the mist.

I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat, from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts, the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels--until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!

Boat whose prow is colored gold, oarlocks wrought from

First, you slip the oars into the round oarlocks or, if you're good, those U-shaped locks.

Our conversation quickly died and soon enough the only sounds accompanying us were the clunking grind of the oarlocks, the chuff of waves breaking as we slowly drove forward, and the odd, straining grunt from Marie as fatigue began to set in.

Rope creaks, pulley squeaks, oars in oarlocks, and other dock sounds helped to flesh out the wharf.