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lockchest

lockchest is the alternative form of lockchester.

Meaning of lockchester

Noun

lockchester (plural lockchesters)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of woodlouse.
    • Of these, the last only will be found in a dictionary of modern English, but I have already remarked that the name of lockchester is preserved among the peasantry of Oxfordshire, and I may add, that the peasantry in the North of England still call a woodlouse a kitchen-ball, and that those of the...1857, Thomas Wright, On the History of the English Language, page 22
    Synonyms:
    woodlouse

Forms of lockchest

plurallockchests

Questions about lockchest

What is lockchest the alternative form of?
Lockchest is the alternative form of lockchester.

Words near lockchest in the dictionary

  1. lockbolts
  2. lockbox
  3. lockboxes
  4. lockchamber
  5. lockchambers
  6. lockchest
  7. lockchester
  8. lockchesters
  9. lockchests
  10. lockdown
  11. lockdown browser

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