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Lock :: Lock (v. t.) 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..

Flocked :: Flocked (imp. & p. p.) of Floc.

Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action..

Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch..

Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him..

Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..

Hommock :: Hommock (n.) A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock..

Dagswain :: Dagswain (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool..

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.

Stub :: Stub (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.

Uplock :: Uplock (v. t.) To lock up.

Tump :: Tump (n.) A little hillock; a knoll.

Heritage :: Heritage (a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge..

Loom :: Loom (n.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.

Lignum-vitae :: Lignum-vitae (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum..

Anvil :: Anvil (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped..

Selvedge :: Selvedge (n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes..

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