"Rowlock" is a word in ENGLISH

rowlock ENGLISH
Definition:

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.

Few words of positivity

The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.

Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology

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frigate ENGLISH

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to …

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shove ENGLISH

To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a …

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