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- English Word Lock Definition 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.
- English Word Lock Definition To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
- English Word Lock Definition To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- English Word Lock Definition To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
- English Word Lock Definition To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
- English Word Lock hospital Definition A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
- English Word Lock step Definition A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
- English Word Lock stitch Definition A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.
- English Word Lock-down Definition A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.
- English Word Lock-weir Definition A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
- English Word Lockage Definition Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
- English Word Lockage Definition Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
- English Word Lockage Definition Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
- English Word Locked Definition of Lock
- English Word Locked-jaw Definition See Lockjaw.
- English Word Locken Definition of Lock.
- English Word Locken Definition The globeflower (Trollius).
- English Word Locker Definition One who, or that which, locks.
- English Word Locker Definition A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
- English Word Locket Definition A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.