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noun Lock n. A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. "These gray locks, the pursuivants of death."
Lock n. 1.Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened. 2.A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. "Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages." 3.A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. 4.The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. 5.An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; called also lift lock. 6.That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. 7.A device for keeping a wheel from turning. 8.A grapple in wrestling. Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with. Lock bay (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber. Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock. Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check. Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached. Lock rail (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock. Lock rand (Masonry), a range of bond stone. Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise. Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock.
verb Lock v. t. (past & past part. locked; pres. part. locking) 1.To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc. 2.To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc. 3.To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast. 4.To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. " Lock hand in hand." 5.(Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. 6.(Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lock v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. "When it locked none might through it pass." To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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