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• Lock

  ·noun A grapple in wrestling. II. Lock ·noun A device for keeping a wheel from turning. III. Lock ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lock

  The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• lock!

  an exclamation of surprise ; as, what! heyday! Exm. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• lock

  I. The striking instrument by which fire is produced for the discharge of a gun, containing the co...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Lock

  Where European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of wood, and ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Double-lock

  ·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Hammer lock

  ·add. ·- A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his op...

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• Hip lock

  ·add. ·- A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip. ...

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• Lock hospital

  ·- A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. ...

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• Lock step

  ·- A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lock stitch

  ·- A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by s...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lock-down

  ·noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; — used by lumbermen. ...

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• Lock-weir

  ·noun A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• lock hospital

  An hospital for venereal patients. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• soap-lock

  A lock of hair made to lie smooth by soaping it. Hence also a name given to a low set of fellows who...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• black-lock

  A trout thought to be peculiar to Lough Melvin, on the west of Ireland. ...

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• fire-lock

  Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...

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• lock, to

  To entangle the lower yards when tacking. ...

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• lock-fast

  A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms. ...

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• wheel-lock

  A small machine attached to the old musket for producing sparks of fire. ...

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• lock up house

  A spunging house; a public house kept by sheriff's officers, to which they convey the persons they h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lock, stock, and barrel

  The whole. A figurative expression borrowed from sportsmen, and having reference to a gun. Look at ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lock, stock, and barrel

  An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hammer, of a gun-lock

  Formerly the steel covering of the pan from which the flint of the cock struck sparks on to the prim...

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