rollock
rollock is the alternative form of rowlock.
rollock is the alternative form of rollick.
Meaning of rowlock
Noun
rowlock (plural rowlocks)
- 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.
- I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- oarlock
- 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).
Meaning of rollick
Verb (1)
rollick (third-person singular simple present rollicks, present participle rollicking, simple past and past participle rollicked)
- To behave in a playful or carefree manner; to frolic or romp.
- But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 34, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 163
Verb (2)
rollick (third-person singular simple present rollicks, present participle rollicking, simple past and past participle rollicked)
- To reprimand.
Forms of rollock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rollocks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rollocks |
| present participle | rollocking |
| past participle | rollocked |
| past | rollocked |
Questions about rollock
- What is rollock the alternative form of?
- Rollock is the alternative form of rowlock.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rollock (page history and authors); rowlock (page history and authors); rollick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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