oarlock

/ˈɔɹlˌɑk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip."
""No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad." Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller. Tranny shows Hiro how to snap zodiac's oars into the oarlocks."

From oar + lock.

oarlocks (plural)

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How do you pronounce oarlock?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɔɹlˌɑk/.

What does oarlock mean?

Where does oarlock come from?

From oar + lock.

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