jail lock
jail lock noun: a kind of cast iron padlock.
Noun
jail lock (plural jail locks)
- A kind of cast iron padlock.
- The outer, and inner entrance doors have jail locks.1887, Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities, Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities
- To prevent this and the possibility of scandal (which could happen on trumped up charges) a grated steel door with jail lock should be placed on this doorway.1927, New York Legislative Documents - Volume 20, page 343
- Synonyms:
- Scandinavian padlock
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jail, lock.
Examples of jail lock in a sentence
- Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference, →ISBN:
- An old jail lock hanging on the wall swayed back and forth.2009, Michael Norman, The Nearly Departed, →ISBN:
- The locks to the doors must be the Scandinavian Jail Lock.2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877, →ISBN:
Synonyms of jail lock
Forms of jail lock
| plural | jail locks |
|---|
Questions about jail lock
- What does jail lock mean?
- Jail lock means a kind of cast iron padlock.
- How do you use jail lock in a sentence?
- Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.
- What part of speech is jail lock?
- Jail lock is a noun.
- What is the plural of jail lock?
- The plural of jail lock is jail locks.
Words near jail lock in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: jail lock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “jail lock.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jail_lock. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.