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Webster 1913 Edition
Lock
Lock
(lŏk)
, Noun.
[AS.
locc
; akin to D. lok
, G. locke
, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr
, and perh. to Gr. [GREEK] 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. Shakespeare
Lock
,Noun.
[AS.
loc
inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. lūcan
to lock, fasten; akin to OS. lūkan
(in comp.), D. luiken
, OHG. lūhhan
, Icel. lūka
, Goth. lūkan
(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 match
lock
, 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
.Lock
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Locked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
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
. etc. lock
or lock up
, a house, jail, room, trunk3.
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;
“ Lock hand in hand.” as, to
. lock
armsShak.
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
,Verb.
I.
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing;
as, the door
. locks
closeWhen it
locked
none might through it pass. Spenser.
To lock into
, to fit or slide into;
as, they
. lock into
each otherBoyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lock
LOCK
,Noun.
1.
Lock, in its primary sense, is any thing that fastens; but we now appropriate the word to an instrument composed of a spring, wards, and a bolt of iron or steel, used to fasten doors, chests and the like. The bolt is moved by a key.2.
The part of a musket or fowling-piece or other fire-arm, which contains the pan, trigger, &c.3.
The barrier or works of a canal, which confine the water, consisting of a dam, banks or walls, with two gates or pairs of gates, which may be opened or shut at pleasure.4.
A grapple in wrestling.5.
Any inclosure.6.
A tuft of hair; a plexus of wool, hay or other like substance; a flock; a ringlet of hair.A lock of hair will draw more than a cable rope.
Lock of water, is the measure equal to the contents of the chamber of the locks by which the consumption of water on a canal is estimated.