Then it won't slip out of the rowlock and sail off, leaving you to wait until somebody happens along to pick you up.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith
The oars were very thick at the rowlock, tapering off to an almost straight blade, not more than five inches wide.
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
"That comes o' having bad thole-pins;" and he began to knock out the remains of the pin that formed the rowlock and which had broken short off.
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn