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. |
Washer (n.) One who, or that which, washes. |
Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc. |
Washer (n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. |
Washer (n.) The common raccoon. |
Washer (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. |
lock | any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured |
airlock air lock | a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
combination lock | lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence |
cylinder lock | a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt, tumblers are pins, inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate |
dishwasher dish washer dishwashing machine | a machine for washing dishes |
lever lock | a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move |
lock | a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed |
lock ignition lock | a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key |
lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
lock | a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun |
lock-gate | a gate that can be locked |
lockring lock ring lock washer | washer that prevents a nut from loosening |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
safety catch safety lock | guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired |
sash fastener sash lock window lock | a lock attached to the sashes of a double hung window that can fix both in the shut position |
vapor lock vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
washer automatic washer washing machine | a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically |
washer | seal consisting of a flat disk placed to prevent leakage |
wheel lock | an obsolete gunlock using flint and a revolving wheel |
lock curl ringlet whorl | a strand or cluster of hair |
scalp lock | a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head |
washer | someone who washes things for a living |
window washer | someone who washes windows |
lock-up option | an option to buy the crown jewels offered to a white knight in order to forestall a hostile takeover |
lock | become rigid or immoveable, The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise |
lock in lock away lock put away shut up shut away lock up | place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape, The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend, She locked her jewels in the safe |
lock in seal in | close with or as if with a tight seal, This vacuum pack locks in the flavor! |
lock | fasten with a lock, lock the bike to the fence |
lock up | secure by locking, lock up the house before you go on vacation |
engage mesh lock operate | keep engaged, engaged the gears |
interlock lock | become engaged or intermeshed with one another, They were locked in embrace |
lock interlock interlace | hold in a locking position, He locked his hands around her neck |
lock | build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels |
lock | hold fast (in a certain state), He was locked in a laughing fit |
lock | pass by means through a lock in a waterway |
lock out | prevent employees from working during a strike |