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Oarlock vs Warlock - What's the difference?

oarlock | warlock |

As nouns the difference between oarlock and warlock

is that oarlock is a device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing while warlock is the male equivalent of witch.

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

    warlock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The male equivalent of witch.
  • (obsolete) A traitor or oath-breaker.
  • (obsolete) The Devil, Satan; a demon.
  • (originally Scotland and Northern UK ) A man in league with the Devil; a male magic-user, a wizard.