lockfast
lockfast adjective: fastened or secured with a lock.
Adjective
lockfast (comparative more lockfast, superlative most lockfast)
- Fastened or secured with a lock.
- It was such a scene of confusion as you can hardly fancy. All the lockfast places had been broken open in quest of the chart.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 201
- At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; […]1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 42
Forms of lockfast
| comparative | more lockfast |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lockfast |
Origin of lockfast
From lock + fast.
Questions about lockfast
- What does lockfast mean?
- Lockfast means fastened or secured with a lock.
- What part of speech is lockfast?
- Lockfast is an adjective.
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