oarlock造句

• Over the years, more than 150 small artifacts have been raised up, including wine bottles, condiment and apothecary jars, an ironstone dinner plate, brass oarlocks for the Monitor's boats and the remains of an iron hull plate.
• With aluminum hulls painted green, red and blue and oarlocks that clank and groan, these are sturdy rowboats, the kind you'd expect to see tethered to a pier in Maine . ( Boston Common can keep its flotilla of swan-shaped pedal boats .)
• He is quenching it with a rowboat equipped with solar-powered electronics, two emergency radio beacons, a finicky communications radio, a desalinating water pump, extra oarlocks and oars and 120 pounds of dry cereal and powdered vitamin supplement that, on examination, tasted like flour.
• Her palette of sound has the charm that reflects the giggles in her voice when she talks about such failed adventures as water-skiing ( her personal best is staying up 3 seconds ) or sculling solo for the first time ( she put the oars in the wrong oarlocks and had to be rescued ).
• The distinction between rowing and other forms of water transport, such as canoeing or kayaking, is that in rowing the oars are held in place at a pivot point that is in a fixed position relative to the boat, this point is the load point for the oar to act as a second class drag, and the oars are attached to oarlocks at the end of outriggers extending from the sides of the boat.
• A "'rowlock "', sometimes "'spur "'( due to the similarity in shape and size ), "'oarlock "'( USA ) or "'gate "'( Australia ) is a brace that attaches an oar to a fulcrum, and, in doing so, the propulsive force that the rower exerts on the water with the oar is transferred to the boat by the thrust force exerted on the rowlock.
• When I think of a " rowboat ", I imagine something like http : / / www . addisonart . com / artwork / cohen _ B _ art / BC _ print-Red-rowboat . gif ( the first Google image result for " rowboat " ), where the front of the boat is pointed, there's a bench or two, and the back of the boat is squared-off . ( The picture doesn't show oarlocks on the sides, which are usually on either end of the benches . ) Wikipedia's Rowboat page is a redirect to " Watercraft rowing ", which seems to be about competitive or military rowing, where the boats are pointed on front and back . ( " Canoe-like ", I'd call them .)