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• rollock, rullock

語源

Probably from 古期英語 ārlōc, equivalent to oar + lock.

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) enPR: rŭ'lək, IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌlək/
• (Received 発音) enPR: rŏ'lək, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒlək/
• (米国発音) enPR: rä'lək, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑlək/

名詞

rowlock (複数形 rowlocks)

1. (nautical, chiefly Britain) A usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock (主に米国用法).
   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:

     I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night.

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 8,

     Everything smelled salt and there was no noise except the swishing of water and the clop-clop of water against the sides and the splash of the oars and the jolting noise of the rowlocks.

   Synonym: (米国用法) oarlock

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