Rowlock vs. Thole — What's the Difference?

A rowlock UK: , sometimes spur (due to the similarity in shape and size), oarlock (USA) or gate, is a brace that attaches an oar to a boat. When a boat is rowed, the rowlock acts as a fulcrum for the oar.On ordinary rowing craft, the rowlocks are attached to the gunwales.

Thole is a surname.

An oarlock.

A thole pin.

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 mostly US.

To suffer.

A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar; same as oarlock.

To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.

One of the rings of masonry included in an arch having more than one ring.

A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.

(architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.

The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.

To bear; to endure; to undergo.

To wait.

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing