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(1):

(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

(2):

(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

(3):

(n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

(4):

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

(5):

(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

(6):

(n.) A grapple in wrestling.

(7):

(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.

(8):

(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.

(9):

(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

(10):

(v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.

(11):

(n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

(12):

(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.

(13):

(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.

(14):

(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

(15):

(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.

(16):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lock'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lock.html. 1828.
 
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