A device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing
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.
The oarlocks on a rowing boat are the U-shaped pieces of metal that keep the oars in position while you move them backwards and forwards. one of the small pieces of metal on a rowing boat that holds the oars
The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing