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deathlock

n. 1 (context sports English) a wrestling move 2 (context rare English) a deadlock

Usage examples of "deathlock".

Men hacked at the rolling knot of their bodies, and in one moment a machai hacked down into his back, but he had a deathlock on the gun and meant to batter Tain loose from the one weapon that equalized the odds.