Compression (n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. |
Cuttoo plate () A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. |
Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts |
Lock (n.) A tuft of hair |
Lock (n.) Anything that fastens |
Lock (n.) A fastening together or interlacing |
Lock (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
Lock (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
Lock (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 |
Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded |
Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning. |
Lock (n.) A grapple in wrestling. |
Lock (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock |
Lock (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of |
Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks |
Lock (v. t.) To link together |
Lock (v. t.) To furnish with locks |
Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. |
Lock (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing |
Lock-down (n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting |
Lock hospital () A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. |
Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
Lock stitch () A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch. |
Lock-weir (n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. |
Plate (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions |
Plate (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. |
Plate (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. |
Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. |
Plate (n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. |
Plate (n.) A piece of money, usually silver money. |
Plate (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed |
Plate (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from |
Plate (n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. |
Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers |
Plate (n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. |
Plate (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. |
Plate (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest. |
Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. |
Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal |
Plate (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal |
Plate (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae. |
Plate (v. t.) To calender |
Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. |
Water plate () A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. |