Definition of lock

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Lock (n.) 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..

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Saithe :: Saithe (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock..
Denture :: Denture (n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth..
Gavelock :: Gavelock (n.) An iron crow or lever.
Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
At :: At (prep.) The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first..
Mome :: Mome (n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead..
Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.
Clepsydra :: Clepsydra (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix..
Mustard :: Mustard (n.) The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum)..
Honeyware :: Honeyware (n.) See Badderlocks.
Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..
Cicutoxin :: Cicutoxin (n.) The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..
Evergreen :: Evergreen (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like..
Tend :: Tend (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks..
Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger..
Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house..
Comb :: Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked..
Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..
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