Usually means: Brick or stone laid horizontally.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word rowlock:

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  1. rowlock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rowlock: Merriam-Webster
  3. rowlock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rowlock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rowlock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rowlock: Vocabulary.com
  7. rowlock: Wordnik
  8. rowlock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rowlock: Wiktionary
  10. rowlock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rowlock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rowlock, rowlock: Dictionary.com
  13. Rowlock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Rowlock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rowlock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rowlock: Rhymezone
  17. Rowlock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rowlock: FreeDictionary.org
  19. rowlock: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. rowlock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. rowlock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rowlock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Rowlock: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ROWLOCK: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical, chiefly British) 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.
noun:  A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically with its tallest but slimmest side facing down, and its shortest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that it is taller than it is wide).

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