rowlock

Questions about rowlock

What does rowlock mean?

rowlock means "a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing".

How many syllables are in rowlock?

rowlock has 2 syllables and divides as row-lock under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for rowlock?

Close synonyms include peg, pin, thole, tholepin, oarlock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rowlock a common word?

rowlock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.