Crossword-Solution: LOCK
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| Lock | n. | A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. |
| Lock | 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. |
| Lock | n. | A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. |
| Lock | n. | A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
| Lock | n. | The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
| Lock | 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. |
| Lock | n. | That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. |
| Lock | n. | A device for keeping a wheel from turning. |
| Lock | n. | A grapple in wrestling. |
| Lock | 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. |
| Lock | 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. |
| Lock | 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. |
| Lock | v. t. | To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. |
| Lock | v. t. | To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. |
| Lock | v. t. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with LOCK (5)
You wouldn’t want me to be more lonely than I have been, would you?” Carl laughed and pushed back the triangular lock of hair with the edge of his hat.
But I’ll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, curl up to sleep in a lock of straw! It played me nearly the same trick the other day!” Gabriel, by way of emphasis, brought down his fist upon the floor.
Mighty was their fuss about little matters, and marvellous, sometimes, the obtuseness that allowed greater ones to slip between their fingers! Whenever such a mischance occurred—when a waggon-load of valuable merchandise had been smuggled ashore, at noonday, perhaps, and directly beneath their unsuspicious noses—nothing could exceed the vigilance and alacrity with which they proceeded to lock, and double-lock, and secure with tape and sealing-wax, all the avenues of the delinquent vessel.
One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
The door of my cabinet is then to be forced: and you are to go in alone; to open the glazed press (letter E) on the left hand, breaking the lock if it be shut; and to draw out, _with all its contents as they stand_, the fourth drawer from the top or (which is the same thing) the third from the bottom.
Quotes with LOCK (3)
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeem…
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness. The life coach Martha Beck asks new potential clients, "Is there anything you do regularly that makes you forget what time it is?" That forgetting -- that pure absorption -- is what the psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmih…
It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 123 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).