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) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in
a lock.
6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning
the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lock (?), v. i. 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.
Lock"age (?), n. 1. Materials for locks in a canal, or the works
forming a lock or locks.