Lock step

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• Step

  ·vi Walk; passage. II. Step ·vt To set, as the foot. III. Step ·adj To walk slowly, gravely, or re...

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• Step-

  ·- A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, ·etc., to indicate th...

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• step

  A large clamp of timber fixed on the kelson, and fitted to receive the tenoned heel of a mast. The s...

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• Lock

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

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• 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...

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• Lock

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

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Step-down

  ·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressu...

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• Step-up

  ·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-u...

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• Two-step

  ·add. ·noun A kind of round dance in march or polka time; also, a piece of music for this dance. ...

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• capstan-step

  (See step of the capstan.) The men march round to the tune of a fiddle or fife, and the phrase of ...

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• oblique step

  A movement in marching, in which the men, while advancing, gradually take ground to the right or lef...

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• ordinary step

  The common march of 110 paces in a minute. ...

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• quick-step

  See quick-march. ...

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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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• 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 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. ...

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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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• Seven Step Alley

  At 39 New Street, Gravel Lane, Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory). Earliest mention: O...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• step out, to

  To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c. ...

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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

• step of the capstan

  A solid block of wood fixed between two of the ship's beams to receive the iron spindle and heel of ...

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• 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. ...

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• 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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