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Webster 1913 Edition


Inlock

In-lock′

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Verb.
T.
To lock in, or inclose.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inlock

INLOCK'

,
Verb.
T.
To lock or inclose one thing within another.

Definition 2024


inlock

inlock

English

Verb

inlock (third-person singular simple present inlocks, present participle inlocking, simple past and past participle inlocked)

  1. To lock in.
  2. To inclose.

Noun

inlock (plural inlocks)

  1. A locking in.
    • 1898, The Western dental journal:
      The lower jaw slides forward on account of the inlock of these upper teeth.
  2. That which is locked in.
  3. The process of locking in.
  4. An inner or interior lock.
  5. (law, Britain dialectal, Northern England) Any corner or part of a common field plowed up and sowed with oats, etc. and sometimes fenced in with a dry hedge while the lave of the field lies fallow and common.