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stock lock

stock lock noun: a lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.

stock lock: a lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door
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Noun

stock lock (plural stock locks)

  1. A lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.
    • Fortune at length did for me that which I had not been able to accomplish, by the greatest efforts, for myself. The lock that was on the door of my nightly prison was a large stock lock, and had been clumsily fitted on the door, so that the end of the lock pressed against the door-case, and made it...1860, Charles Ball, Fifty Years in Chains, or the Life of an American Slave, Chapter 19

Forms of stock lock

pluralstock locks

Questions about stock lock

What does stock lock mean?
Stock lock means a lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.
What part of speech is stock lock?
Stock lock is a noun.
What is the plural of stock lock?
The plural of stock lock is stock locks.

Words near stock lock in the dictionary

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