The Meaning of lock

• (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
• (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.
• (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
• (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
• (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
• (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.
• (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
• (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
• (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
• (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.
• (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.
• (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.
• (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
• (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
• (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
• (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

Synonyms

curl , ringlet , whorl , lock chamber , ignition lock , engage , mesh , operate , interlock , interlace , interlock , lock in , lock away , put away , shut up , shut away , lock up

Antonyms

unlock , disengage , unlock

Homophones

laack , laake , loch , locke

Rhymes

ad-hoc , adcock , aftershock , airlock , alcock , antiknock , antilock , antioch , baack , bach , balk , ballcock , bangkok , barach , baulk , bedrock , bloc , bloch , block , blok , boardwalk , boch , bock , bohlke , bok , broc , brock , calk , catwalk , caulk , chalk , chock , chok , clock , cloque , cock , comstock , cornstalk , croc , crock , crosstalk , crosswalk , deadlock , doc , dock , eisenach , elcock , electroshock , erlach , estok , falk , falke , faulk , feedstock , flintlock , floc , flock , frock , fyock , gamecock , gawk , glock , gocke , gohlke , goshawk , gridlock , groch , haack , haacke , haak , hammerlock , hamrock , hancock , hassebrock , hauck , hauk , hauke , havelock , hawk , hawke , haycock , hemlock , hitchcock , hoc , hoch , hock , hollyhock , interlock , iraq , jacques , jaywalk , jock , kilmarnock , kloc , klock , klocke , knaack , knaak , knock , kock , kok , kroc , krock , krok , kwok , laack , laake , landlock , lauck , laughingstock , laycock , leacock , livestock , loch , locke , maack , mach , madlock , manioc , maroc , matchlock , mauck , mauk , maycock , moch , mock , mohawk , mok , nighthawk , nock , norwalk , oarlock , och , overstock , padlock , pathak , peacock , ploch , plock , poch , pock , poppycock , reichenbach , restock , roadblock , roc , roch , rock , rocke , rocque , salk , sauk , schaack , schalk , schlock , schoch , shaak , shamrock , shedlock , sherlock , shock , shrock , shylock , sidewalk , skok , skroch , sleepwalk , smock , sock , sok , spock , spurlock , squawk , staack , stalk , stock , stocke , stokke , strock , talk , tock , tomahawk , toque , undock , unlock , vlok , vocke , waack , walk , walke , warloeck , wedlock , woodcock , woodstock , yeosock , zoch , zwack