rowlocks

It was all that was heard; the silence had made those in the boat silent; nothing but the dip of the oars and that quick mockery of the rowlocks from the wall said that anything was moving.

The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

Yet they continued to stare into the blackness in the direction in which the boat had disappeared, listening to the steady click of the oars in the rowlocks until it faded away and ceased.

Chapter 16 2010

She did not know, and it concerned her little; for boats, and the sea, and the things and happenings of the sea were of far more vital interest to her than men, and the next moment she was staring through the warm tropic darkness at the loom of the sails and the steady green of the moving sidelight, and listening eagerly to the click of the sweeps in the rowlocks.

Chapter 15 2010

We could hear the sound of rowlocks, and saw the little white light bobbing up and down and now very close to us.

To Repel Boarders 2010

My guess is that it's squeezed out of rowlocks in a shed in Henley, hence its rarity.

Beauty spot: shaving oils 2011

The sound made by the rowlocks grew more distinct.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

I made certain that it contained the proper equipment of oars, rowlocks, and sail.

Chapter 26 2010

I was hunting for it when the sound of rowlocks came to my ears.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

Inside the boathouse there is the check of items to take, such as oars, key to the padlocked boat, rowlocks and a drogue.

Country diary: Loch Farr 2010

From each end a canopy could unfold, meeting in the middle to keep out the night and the rain, and the boatyard also provided mooring ropes, a gas lamp, rowlocks and oars for alternative manoeuvrability, a six-foot pole with a hook on the end of it, and a twelve-foot punt-pole for propelling the eighteen-foot flat-bottomed boat along on top of the water.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010