Definition of lock

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Lock (n.) 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..

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Lockram :: Lockram (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany..
Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Dag-tailed :: Dag-tailed (a.) Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
Wedded :: Wedded (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
Denote :: Denote (v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour..
Undern :: Undern (n.) The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper..
Plump :: Plump (n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears..
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico..
Juggle :: "Juggle (n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split..
Hommock :: Hommock (n.) A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock..
Flexibility :: Flexibility (n.) The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light..
Gymnosperm :: Gymnosperm (n.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm..
Bullock :: Bullock (n.) An ox, steer, or stag..
Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..
Mamelon :: Mamelon (n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.
Lockage :: Lockage (n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
Hall :: Hall (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock..
Earlock :: Earlock (n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.
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