Hip lock

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• Hip

  ·vt To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. II. Hip ·noun ·Alt. of <<Hipps>>. III. Hip ·interj Used...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hip

  or hyp A mode of calling to one passing by. Hip, Michael, your head's on fire; a piece of vulgar wi...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hip

  to have on the hip, is to have an advantage over another. It seems to be taken from hunting, the hip...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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

  1) A scheme, a mode. I must fight that lock; I must try that scheme. 2) Character. He stood a queer...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• Hip tree

  ·- The dog-rose. ...

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• Hip-roofed

  ·adj Having a hip roof. ...

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• Double-lock

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

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• 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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• 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 ...

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• Lock stitch

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

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• 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. ...

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• 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. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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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