Definition of lock

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Lock (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock..

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Intercept :: Intercept (v. t.) To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade..
Mulierty :: Mulierty (n.) Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.
Engraving :: Engraving (n.) The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper..
Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..
Lock Step :: Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him..
Spouse :: Spouse (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife..
Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks..
Bullock''s-eye :: Bullock's-eye (n.) See Bull's-eye, 3..
Limb :: Limb (n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
Ticker :: Ticker (n.) One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself..
Blocking Course :: Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.
Tump :: Tump (n.) A little hillock; a knoll.
Ward :: Ward (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
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..
Lockage :: Lockage (n.) Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks..
Blocking :: Blocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloc.
Bay :: Bay (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc..
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