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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lock \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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lock \Lock\, v. 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 lock or lock up a house, jail, room trunk. etc 3. 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; as to lock arms. `` Lock hand in hand.'' --Shak. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lock \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lock n 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed 2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: {curl}, {ringlet}, {whorl}] 3: a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun 4: section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it [syn: {lock chamber}] 5: a device incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key [syn: {ignition lock}] 6: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured v 1: fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" [ant: {unlock}] 2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: {engage}, {mesh}, {operate}] [ant: {disengage}] 3: become rigid or immoveable; of bones; "Don't lock your knees in this exercise" [ant: {unlock}] 4: hold in a locking position: "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: {interlock}, {interlace}] 5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" [syn: {interlock}] 6: hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit" 7: place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" [syn: {lock in}, {lock away}, {put away}, {shut up}, {shut away}, {lock up}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Lock The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judg. 3:24). (See {KEY}.) Lock of hair (Judg. 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Num. 6:5, etc.). From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: LOCK-:AND:-:KEY:, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
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