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Carlock vs Oarlock - What's the difference?

carlock | oarlock |

As nouns the difference between carlock and oarlock

is that carlock is a sort of russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine while oarlock is a device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.

carlock

English

Noun

  • A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.
    • (Webster 1913)

    oarlock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.
  • * 1906: Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Joe_the_Hotel_Boy/Chapter_XI]
    • But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip.

    Synonyms

    * (UK) rowlock