WEDLOCKS

Noun

wedlocks

plural of wedlock

Source: Wiktionary


WEDLOCK

Wed"lock, n. Etym: [AS. wedlac a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., Knowledge.]

1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.

2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Syn.

– See Marriage.

Wed"lock, v. t.

Definition: To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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