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Lock
Lock Lock, n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc,
Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. ? to bend, twist.]
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. --Shak.
LockLock Lock, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the
fastening of a door, fr. l[=u]can to lock, fasten; akin to
OS. l[=u]kan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. l[=u]hhan, Icel.
l?ka, Goth. l[=u]kan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf.
Locket.]
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. --De
Quincey.
3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
--Dryden.
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. --Milton.
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. --Knight.
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. LockLock 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. --Spenser.
To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each
other. --Boyle.
Meaning of Locks from wikipedia
- Look up lock or
locks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lock(s) may
refer to: Lock and key, a
mechanical device used to
secure items of
importance Lock...
- The Soo
Locks (sometimes
spelled Sault Locks but
pronounced "soo") are a set of
parallel locks,
operated and
maintained by the
United States Army Corps...
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Locks are used to make a
river more
easily navigable, or to
allow a
canal to
cross land that is not level.
Later canals used more and
larger locks to...
- only)
Specifies how old
programs should be handled.
LOCKS (PTS-DOS only)
Specifies number of file
locks. LOGO (MS-DOS 7.0 and
higher and PTS-DOS only, ignored...
- The
Hiram M.
Chittenden Locks, or
Ballard Locks, is a
complex of
locks at the west end of
Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake
Washington Ship Canal...
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cutting across the
Isthmus of Panama, and is a
conduit for
maritime trade.
Locks at each end lift
ships up to
Gatun Lake, an
artificial fresh water lake...
- (Spanish: ampliación del
Canal de Panamá), also
called the
Third Set of
Locks Project,
doubled the
capacity of the
Panama Canal by
adding a new traffic...
- gwan-jerl-gi (관절기,
joint skill) or gwan-jerl-kerk-gi (관절꺾기,
joint breaking).
Joint locks typically involve isolating a
particular joint,
levering it in an attempt...
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Locks of Love is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit charity that
provides custom-made hair
prosthetics to
disadvantaged children up to the age of 21 who have suffered...
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Chubb Locks is a
former brand name of the Mul-T-Lock
subsidiary of the ****a
Abloy Group,
which manufactures locking systems for residential,
secure confinement...
