As we shot into this watery lane, and the roll of the oars in the rowlocks ceased, the silence became profound, almost oppressively so, marked and emphasised as it was by the lap and gurgle of the water against the boat's planking.
My rowlocks are five feet apart; double the greatest width of the boat.
Its length is from seven to ten yards, and as it is only from sixteen to thirty inches wide in its widest part, you understand why you want those "outriggers," or projecting iron frames with the rowlocks in which the oars play.
She carried a broad mainsail and a large jib, and had rowlocks for four pairs of oars.
With two pairs of oars, or better still, with all the rowlocks in use, she seemed to offer no resistance at all.
Tis a song of havoc the rowlocks sing, And Death marks time in the rower's swing; 'Tis a baleful glow on the spouting spray, As the keels in their cruel lust make way.
Reid-- Their rattling rowlocks louder hum To mark their heightened speed.
I was hunting for it when the sound of rowlocks came to my ears.
By having three rowlocks on each side, equidistant, the rower or rowers had only to turn round and row in the opposite direction, the boat having stem and stern alike.
After using it some time he discarded the ‘paddle proper,’ and fitted a pair of iron rowlocks sufficiently long to be secured to the bottom board and the gunwales, and used a pair of short sculls.
The two rowlocks can be made by a blacksmith, and it would be well if a rowlock could be borrowed as a pattern from which he can work.
The gunwales must be strengthened to receive the rowlocksat the place k, k, k, k, on Fig.
But the sides, though high enough to make a punt capable of carrying a considerable load, were too low to carry rowlocks unless the rower sat on the bottom of the boat.
She got out the oars and dropped the rowlocks into their holes.
He arranged the oars and the rowlocks and then, standing ankle deep in the water, shoved her off.
There's a new pair of rowlocks and I've a nice bit of rope for a halyard for the little lug.
To the right, if you turn that way, is a counter at which you can buy anything, from galvanised iron rowlocks to biscuits and jam.
When a boat is fitted with a pair of rowlocks not opposite each other, it is called a pair-oared boat.
Keeping time" means, all "feathering" the oar together, by which the peculiar click of the oars in the rowlocks is made exactly at the same instant.
Boats with two rowlocks opposite each other are called sculling boats, and are propelled by a pair of light oars called sculls, the art being called "sculling.
Rullocks muffled, too,' thought the scout; and very likely the thieves had muffled the rowlocks also.
There was the boat, but oars and rowlocks were safely locked up in the builder's shed.
The muffled rowlocks and sweeps had brought the boat almost full upon him in silence, and the ruffian who sought his life was springing into the bows armed with the boat-hook.
I ought to add that the use of swivel rowlocks is almost universal in America, and that all their Eights are built with the seats directly in a line in the centre of the boat.
Then Bartlemy locked the oars and rowlocks into the boat-house and the Rutherfords and Frances escorted the Greys to their own gate, where they left them with a reassuring pat on each arm, and Wythie and Rob ran into the house.
But I guess no one ever went overboard and stopped to take the rowlocks out.
There were no oars in it and the rowlocks were not in place.
Cut two short strips to fit upon the inside at the rowlocks and fasten them firmly on with screws (Fig.
You can buy rowlocks of galvanized iron for about a quarter of a dollar a pair; the brass ones are not expensive, but even when the store furnishes the hardware there must be a firm support of some sort to hold the rowlock.
These rowlocks may be removed when not in use, and the holes closed by wooden plugs, while the sweeps can be hung at the side of the cabin, under its eaves, or lashed fast to the roof.
If you use the manufactured article, to be found at any hardware store, the merchant will supply you with the screws, plates, and rowlocks, but he will not furnish you with the blocks for the holes in which the spindles of the rowlocks fit.
These will make the rowlocks when the side-strips are nailed on (Fig.
The ring of the German rowlocks deepens--deepens--we see the green bow at our blades again.
The ring of the German's rowlocks rose to treble pitch.
Jack stood watching them pull away into the darkness, the regular chug-chug-chug of the oars in the rowlocks sounding fainter and fainter as the dim forms of the boats were lost in the obscurity of the distance.
Then the oars creaked in the rowlocks and the head of the boat came slowly around in the direction intended.
They had rowlocks with oar-grummets like those in use on the west coast and in the northern part of Norway.
Another characteristic of these boats and ships is the oars with rowlocks (open or closed), instead of paddles.
My rowlocks are five feet apart; double or more than double the greatest width of the boat.
Two rowlocks were pegged in here and there according to the number of rowers required, and one pair at the end for a steering oar.
My first boat had not an ounce of metal in her barring rowlocks and rowlock sockets, and she cost me 17s.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowlocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
