tholepin

Questions about tholepin

What does tholepin mean?

tholepin 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 tholepin?

tholepin has 3 syllables and divides as tho-le-pin 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 tholepin?

Close synonyms include peg, pin, thole, rowlock, 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 tholepin a common word?

tholepin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.