What is "oarlocks"

Usage examples of "oarlocks".

He sat down on the center thwart and Doyle heard the oarlocks rattle as he took up the oars.

For a minute or two both craft maintained their interval as they knifed and lumbered through the water, and the oarlocks clacked in the same rhythm as Jacky's desperate panting.

The oars, several of which were broken off short, had been drawn in and stuck upright in holes by the oarlocks, and nearly formed a fence around the deck.

The other mariners also dropped flat, and the ones in the water, peeking now through the oarlocks, whimpered in the clutch of real awe.

Duffy had been afraid they'd have to row to make any speed, with the unavoidable clatter of the oarlocks, but all that proved to be necessary was an oar-butt shoved forcefully against a bank from time to time to keep them from running aground.

His fat hands were now just elbow-lumps in the tree trunks that extended from his shoulders, through the oarlocks, and out sideways into the water.

Farrell heard the oarlocks clanking and the boats’ bottoms grinding thickly on the shore.

The boat had a dozen oarlocks and a pair of great carved wooden horse heads mounted fore and aft.