Lock ¹

Definition: A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

Lock ²

Definition: 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.

Lock ³

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

Lock ⁴

Definition: A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

Lock ⁵

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

Lock ⁶

Definition: 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.

Lock ⁷

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

Lock ⁸

Definition: A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

Lock ⁹

Definition: A grapple in wrestling.

Lock ¹⁰

Definition: 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.

Lock ¹¹

Definition: 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.

Lock ¹²

Definition: To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.

Lock ¹³

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

Lock ¹⁴

Definition: To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

Lock ¹⁵

Definition: To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

lock ¹⁶

Definition: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent''s body is twisted or pressured

lock ¹⁷

Definition: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

lock ¹⁸

Definition: a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

lock ¹⁹

Definition: 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 ²⁰

Definition: a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

lock ²¹

Definition: a strand or cluster of hair

lock ²²

Definition: become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient''s knees tended to lock in this exercise"

lock ²³

Definition: 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 ²⁴

Definition: fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"

lock ²⁵

Definition: keep engaged; "engaged the gears"

lock ²⁶

Definition: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"

lock ²⁷

Definition: hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"

lock ²⁸

Definition: build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

lock ²⁹

Definition: hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"

lock ³⁰

Definition: pass by means through a lock in a waterway