Meanings (ES + gloss)
escálamo • tolete
A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
Swiftly they glided away, like the shade of a cloud on the prairie. / After the sound of their oars on the tholes had died in the distance, / As from a magic trance the sleepers aw…
The oars squeaked against the tholes, the blades dipped with a steady beat, and the sun beat down: the boat crept across the sea.
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