Lexicographical Neighbors of Rullocks
Literary usage of Rullocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Trim the boat, Mr. rullocks ! Now, what a pretty poetical idea of yours ! ...
I rowed part of the way, and then Mr. rullocks and I towed. ..."
2. The Book of the Thames: From Its Rise to Its Fall by Samuel Carter Hall (1877)
"Some of these wherries are built with only two pairs of rullocks ; these are used
either for two pairs of sculls or a pair of oars. ..."
3. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1816)
"... and to make my blades of iron, and also so much of the sbank as lies between
the rullocks of the boat when rowing and the blade, or, as is required, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... to see to the arms and ammunition, and to muffle the rullocks of the boats,
and to make everything as trim and swift and silent as it could be made. ..."
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