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Lock

noun

1.

A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed.

2.

A strand or cluster of hair. Synonyms: curl, ringlet, whorl.

3.

A mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun.

4.

Enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it. Synonym: lock chamber.

5.

A restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key. Synonym: ignition lock.

6.

Any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured.

verb

(past & past part. locked; pres. part. locking)

1.

Fasten with a lock.

2.

Keep engaged. Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate.

3.

Become rigid or immoveable.

4.

Hold in a locking position. Synonyms: interlace, interlock.

5.

Become engaged or intermeshed with one another. Synonym: interlock.

6.

Hold fast (in a certain state).

7.

Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape. Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up. "She locked her jewels in the safe"

8.

Pass by means through a lock in a waterway.

9.

Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels.

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"Lock" Quotes from Famous Books

... he did. He evidently had some vague idea that the law takes a more serious view of smashing packing-cases than it does of housebreaking. He may have been right. But my record so far was clear. I had not forced the lock of the door. ...

— The Red Hand of Ulster • George A. Birmingham

... coincided with that of Mrs. Yeobright's pause on the hill near the house. When he had looked round the premises in the manner she had noticed he went and knocked at the door. There was a few minutes' interval, and then the key turned in the lock, the door opened, and ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... at first agreed to meet him at Dundalk, but on second thoughts he politely declined, on the ground that the Earl of Sussex had twice attempted to assassinate him, and but for the Earl of Kildare would have put a lock upon his hands when he was passing through Dublin to England. Hence his 'timorous and mistrustful people' would not trust him any more in English hands. In fact O'Neill despised any honours the Queen could confer upon him. ...

— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin

... system, may be known in the colonies by the prohibition of their carrying a hat to market over the line of one province into another; or by breaking down the loom in the most distant corner of the British empire in America; and if this power were denied, I would not permit them to manufacture a lock of wool, or form a horse-shoe or hob-nail. But I repeat the House has no right to lay an internal tax upon America, that country not ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson

... sweetness, and so to the opposite wall. He found the gates there, very formidable-looking, made of vertical iron bars connected by cross-pieces and an ornamental scroll. They were fastened together by a heavy chain and a padlock. The lock was covered with rust, as were the gates themselves, and Ste. Marie observed that the lane outside upon which they gave was overgrown with turf and moss, and even with seedling shrubs; so he felt sure that this entrance ...

— Jason • Justus Miles Forman

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