Lay on Your Oars
Sea Terms
An order to the boat's crew to cease rowing. but to keep their oars shipped in the thole pins or rowlocks, the blades out of water and horizontal, the oar itself kept at right angles to the keel. (See Oars.)
An order to the boat's crew to cease rowing. but to keep their oars shipped in the thole pins or rowlocks, the blades out of water and horizontal, the oar itself kept at right angles to the keel. (See Oars.)