Oarlock: alternatives and connections

An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or haw…

A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing c…

Device. See Device.

A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.

Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid…

A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

A gunwale.

A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rap…