locked
simple past tense and past participle of lock
locked (not comparable)
Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
(Dublin) Very drunk.
(mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.
Antonym: unlocked
• (secured by a lock)
• (drunk): See drunk
• (bound to a carrier): dedicated
• cloked
Source: Wiktionary
Lock, n. Etym: [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr.
Definition: A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. Shak.
Lock, n. Etym: [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. lucan to lock, fasten; akin to OS. lukan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. luhhan, Icel. l, Goth. lukan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf. Locket.]
1. 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.
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.
Lock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locked; p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.]
1. 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.
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)
Definition: To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
6. (Fencing)
Definition: To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lock, v. i.
Definition: To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. When it locked none might through it pass. Spenser. To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
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