Word Meaning

lock definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for lock

- A tress of hair
- Device operated by a key
- Door fastener
- Fasten
- Fasten securely
- Fastening device
- Gated canal section
- Ringlet of hair
- Safety device
- Secure part of canal
- Secure strand
- Securing device
- Shoo-in
- Strand of hair
- Tress of hair
- Wrestling hold