Lock

(noun.) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured.

(noun.) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed.

(noun.) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key.

(noun.) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it.

(noun.) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun.

(noun.) a strand or cluster of hair.

(verb.) become rigid or immoveable; 'The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise'.

(verb.) fasten with a lock; 'lock the bike to the fence'.

(verb.) hold in a locking position; 'He locked his hands around her neck'.

(verb.) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels.

(verb.) hold fast (in a certain state); 'He was locked in a laughing fit'.

(verb.) pass by means through a lock in a waterway.

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• He took the clip out of the submachine gun and worked the lock back and forth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will not fit the lock. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Yes; I had given Miss Harrison instructions to lock the door on the outside and take the key with her when she went to bed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• This was his answer, written, I suppose, in some pique: True you have given me many sweet kisses, and a lock of your beautiful hair. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• That and to get a writing to be fust-hand Lock Keeper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Besides, most of the boxes and drawers there were mouldering, and did not lock. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• If he attempts to run away from you, knock him down, or lock him up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• How could my hair have been locked in the drawer? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He took his keys down while he was talking from a hook behind the fireplace, and locked his cottage door behind us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Who has locked you up here alone? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But when she got into her own, she locked the door, and sate down to cry unwonted tears. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We locked every door on the inside and awaited developments. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I've been locked up as much as a silver tea-kittle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• So he got one of my long locks of hair, and I got one of his short ones. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Directing the pitching of the chair in an affable and easy manner, Mr. Bucket dismisses the Mercuries and locks the door again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was well we were not attacked in our march, for our arms were of the most ordinary sort, and our men could not keep the locks of their guns dry. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These she put on, out on the staircase, first shutting and locking the door and taking away the key. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• When the hour came for locking up, he supposed all strangers to be excluded for the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The different parts of these are called the tube, jacket, hoops, locking rings, trunnion rings, wire winding, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I had just taken the paper; and was locking the cupboard, when the young man seized me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I exclaimed, locking her in my room and taking out the key, since you have forced your company on me you shall repent it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Moore was locking up his desk and putting away his St. Pierre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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