The order to cease rowing, by lifting the oars from the water, and poising them on their looms horizontally in their rowlocks.
♦ Look to your oars! Passing any object or among sea-weed.
♦ Double-banked oars (which see).
The order on shoving off a boat when the men have had them "tossed up." ...
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The order to take to rowing when the sails give but little way on a boat. ...
[banco, Sp.] A seat or bench for rowers in the happily all but extinct galley: these are properly ca...
Put them in their proper places fore and aft on the thwarts ready for use. ...
Unship them from the rowlocks, and place them fore and aft in the boat. ...
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...
Taking a rest; at ease. ...
To put some matting or canvas round the loom when rowing, to prevent its making a noise against the ...
The order to desist rowing, and throw the oars in out of the rowlocks. ...
Throw them up out of the rowlocks, and raise them perpendicularly an-end; the act is intended as a c...