Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lock"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one
thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De
Quincey.

3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
--Dryden.

4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream
or canal.

5. 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}.

6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is
exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock,
etc.

7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton.

{Detector lock}, a lock containing a contrivance for showing
whether it as has been tampered with.

{Lock bay} (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber.

{Lock chamber}, the inclosed space between the gates of a
canal lock.

{Lock nut}. See {Check nut}, under {Check}.

{Lock plate}, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is
attached.

{Lock rail} (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail
nearest the lock.

{Lock rand} (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight.

{Mortise lock}, a door lock inserted in a mortise.

{Rim lock}, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus
differing from a {mortise lock}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. ``
Lock hand in hand.'' --Shak.

5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a
boat) in a lock.

6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by
turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

When it locked none might through it pass. --Spenser.

{To lock into}, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each
other. --Boyle.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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