Definition of lock

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Lock (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock..

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Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..
Tooth :: Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4..
Clog :: Clog (v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion..
Crosier :: Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God..
Charlock :: Charlock (n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock..
Key :: Key (n.) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock..
Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.
Stop :: Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far..
Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy..
Taglock :: Taglock (n.) An entangled lock, as of hair or wool..
Leet :: Leet (n.) The European pollock.
Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling..
Fusee :: Fusee (n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
Hand :: Hand (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim..
Tump :: Tump (n.) A little hillock; a knoll.
Fortilage :: Fortilage (n.) A little fort; a blockhouse.
Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
Reach :: Reach (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land..
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