Lock

Definition:

  • (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
  • (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
  • (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  • (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
  • (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
  • (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
  • (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
  • (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  • (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
  • (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
  • (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
  • (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

Compare lock with other words:

lock vs. plate

lock vs. slock

lock vs. lowk

lock vs. louk

lick vs. lock

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loci vs. lock

lock vs. pock

jock vs. lock

lack vs. lock

hock vs. lock

lock vs. sock

lock vs. rock

flock vs. lock

loch vs. lock

lock vs. mock

lock vs. loco

clock vs. lock

block vs. lock

lock vs. seal

lock vs. luck

imprison vs. lock

lock vs. locky

lock vs. weighlock

lock vs. underlock

belock vs. lock

enlock vs. lock

inlock vs. lock

lock vs. sasse

barrel vs. lock

lock vs. stock

lock vs. strand

fix vs. lock

lock vs. shut

avoirdupois vs. lock

lock vs. octothorpe

lock vs. picnic

animal vs. lock

lock vs. london

close vs. lock

bolt vs. lock

cill vs. lock

lock vs. ringlet

bitting vs. lock

lock vs. strongbox

lock vs. locking

cowlick vs. lock

frizzle vs. lock

lock vs. tuz

lock vs. sluice

dog vs. lock

goose vs. lock

bavarian vs. lock

dig vs. lock

lock vs. waterway

lock vs. selvage

lock vs. loto

lock vs. sneck

lock vs. locker

lock vs. stump

keyhole vs. lock

lock vs. toupee

latch vs. lock

fleck vs. lock

lock vs. shim

curl vs. lock

click vs. lock

forward vs. lock

lock vs. ward

fender vs. lock

lock vs. unlock

dovetail vs. lock

intertwine vs. lock

elflock vs. lock

daglock vs. lock

lock vs. picklock

lock vs. tuft

lock vs. padlock

lock vs. matchlock

lock vs. lockbox

flintlock vs. lock

control vs. lock

lock vs. success

canal vs. lock

gun vs. lock

lock vs. resource

combination vs. lock

fasten vs. lock

limb vs. lock

bar vs. lock

crook vs. lock

dag vs. lock

lock vs. seize

lift vs. lock

key vs. lock

detent vs. lock

connotation vs. lock

bird vs. lock

lock vs. pound