Definition of lock

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Lock (v. t.) 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..

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Blocking :: Blocking (n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks..
Conium :: Conium (n.) The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine..
Dogwatch :: Dogwatch (n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m..
Clodpate :: Clodpate (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.
Bastardize :: Bastardize (v. t.) To beget out of wedlock.
Pollock :: Pollock (n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc..
Heritage :: Heritage (a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge..
Sill :: Sill (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
Half-wit :: Half-wit (n.) A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward..
Tooth :: Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4..
Hemlock :: Hemlock (n.) The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
Gregal :: Gregal (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a flock..
Clog :: Clog (v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion..
Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc..
Nab :: Nab (n.) The cock of a gunlock.
Wantwit :: Wantwit (n.) One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.
Revolver :: Revolver (n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater..
Fid :: Fid (n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
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