"Thowl" is a word in ENGLISH
A rowlock.
A thole pin.
I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.
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How is the Easter Bunny like Shaquille O'Neal? They're both famous for stuffing baskets!
That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.
Read the complete definitionTo wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or …
Read the complete definitionAn implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or …
Read the complete definitionThe notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See …
Read the complete definitionA projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat.
Read the complete definitionA contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in …
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