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lockhouse

lockhouse noun: a house, often small, beside a canal or river lock, usually occupied by the lockkeeper (locktender) in centuries past, and in some places still so occupied today.

lockhouse: a house, often small, beside a canal or river lock, usually occupied by the lockkeeper (locktender)...
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Noun

lockhouse (plural lockhouses)

  1. A house, often small, beside a canal or river lock, usually occupied by the lockkeeper (locktender) in centuries past, and in some places still so occupied today.

Forms of lockhouse

plurallockhouses

Origin of lockhouse

From lock + house.

Questions about lockhouse

What does lockhouse mean?
Lockhouse means a house, often small, beside a canal or river lock, usually occupied by the lockkeeper (locktender) in centuries past, and in some places still so occupied today.
What part of speech is lockhouse?
Lockhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of lockhouse?
The plural of lockhouse is lockhouses.

Words near lockhouse in the dictionary

  1. Lockharts
  2. Lockheed liberal
  3. Lockheed liberals
  4. lockhole
  5. lockholes
  6. lockhouse
  7. lockhouses
  8. Lockian
  9. Lockianism
  10. Lockians
  11. Lockie

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