stocklock
stocklock is the alternative form of stock lock.
Meaning of stock lock
Noun
stock lock (plural stock locks)
- 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 stocklock
| plural | stocklocks |
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Questions about stocklock
- What is stocklock the alternative form of?
- Stocklock is the alternative form of stock lock.
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