oarholes

Updated: May 10, 2025

Then the lower-deck oars shot up through the deck-planking, but first, and one of them jumped clean up into the air and came down again close to my head." "How was that managed?" "The moving galley's bow was plunking them back through their own oarholes, and I could hear the devil of a shindy in the decks below.

Rudyard Kipling - The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories