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Padlock   /pˈædlˌɑk/   Listen
noun
Padlock  n.  
1.
A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
2.
Fig.: A curb; a restraint.


verb
Padlock  v. t.  (past & past part. padlocked; pres. part. padlocking)  To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.





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"Padlock" Quotes from Famous Books



... exit by the roof. It might only lead to a more terrible leap, but meanwhile it offered relief from imminent suffocation. Charlie bore the half-dead girl to the top rung, and found the trap-door padlocked, but a thrust from his powerful shoulder wrenched hasp and padlock from their hold, and next moment a wild cheer greeted him as he stood on a corner of the gable. But a depth of forty or fifty feet was below him with nothing to break his fall to the ...
— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... very good. These strikes, too—what is the object of them? To make every one poor? Every one can't be rich. However, I pin my faith to a strong monarchy. Your Majesty is the padlock on my cash-box! ...
— Three Dramas - The Editor--The Bankrupt--The King • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson
... flagstaff sticking out of the roof of the cabin," Ikey observed. "And somebody must have thought a deal of whatever's in the shack, by the size of the padlock on ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
... the milkmen going into town. Once there, he did his errands carefully, to Mr. Bhaer's surprise and Mrs. Jo's great satisfaction. The Commodore did growl at Dan's promotion, but was pacified by a superior padlock to his new boat-house, and the thought that seamen were meant for higher honors than driving market-wagons and doing family errands. So Dan filled his new office well and contentedly for weeks, and said no more about bolting. But one day Mr. ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... appointed hour the household servants were all assembled in the dining-room. At the head of the long table sat the family attorney and his clerk. Before them lay a japanned tin box, secured by a brass padlock. It contained the last will, the letter, and other documents appertaining to the deceased banker's estate. They were only waiting for the entrance of Miss Levison and her friends. No one else was expected. There was not the usual crowd of poor relatives who "crop up" at the reading of almost ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth


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