Crossword clues for locked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lock \Lock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locked; p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.]
To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. `` Lock hand in hand.''
--Shak.(Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
(Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Wiktionary
1 Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key). 2 (context Dublin English) Very drunk.''A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan'', p.142. v
(en-past of: lock)
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Usage examples of "locked".
With a hasty glance toward the ablution facility, Abe raced after the others, to find them by the locked door.
The doors to the admin building were locked, and the ground floor windows shuttered or barricaded.
Without more ado I locked the door, took off my clothes, and seeing that her back was turned to me, jumped into bed beside her.
He returned to the Crystal Palace grounds, that classic starting-point of aeronautical adventure, about sunset, re-entered his shed without disaster, and had the doors locked immediately upon the photographers and journalists who been waiting his return.
So Caddy, after affectionately squeezing the dear good face as she called it, locked the gate, and took my arm, and we began to walk round the garden very cosily.
I had five boxes of Fiddle Faddle, two bags of Double-Stuff Oreo cookies, a ten-pack of Snickers bars, two bags of Fritos and one of Doritos, seven Gogurts in a variety of flavors, one bag of Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, a box of Count Chocula, a two-pound bag of Skittles, and a six-pack of Yoo-Hoo locked in my room.
Steven had used to refer to the alembic of transformation in which he had locked Jason, but that connection was too thin to build much on.
She knew Jonas had to have a human-sized alembic in the cellars, behind one of those three locked doors.
With his toes locked in branchiets, Alfin reeled the bird into knife range.
As Alkine stood there, staring into the screen, hands locked behind his back, he could well have been mistaken for a human being.
In a grey cloak and a round, grey hat with gold cords, followed closely by two shadowy attendant figures, he stepped briskly amain, eager to open those gates across the path of his ambition, locked against him hitherto by the very hands from which he now went to receive the key.
I went downstairs, locked the house, turned off the lights, and came back upstairs to where Amrita was waiting in bed.
Luken was surprised enough when the Animist leapt from his chair and went racing into the bar itself, but was even more surprised when, a moment later, there were shouts and screams and Alex, locked in struggle with another man, crashed down and through the grape arbor.
Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.
Although Ansatz was almost tidally locked with Quatrefoil, it wobbled enough so most of its surface received at least a little sunlight.