Crossword clues for padlock
padlock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Padlock \Pad"lock`\, n. [Perh. orig., a lock for a pad gate, or a gate opening to a path, or perh., a lock for a basket or pannier, and from Prov. E. pad a pannier. Cf. Pad a path, Paddler.]
A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
Padlock \Pad"lock`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Padlocked; p. pr. &
vb. n. Padlocking.]
To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to
confine as by a padlock.
--Milton. Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"removable lock," late 15c., from lokke (see lock (n.)), but the first element is of unknown origin.
1640s, from padlock (n.). Related: Padlocked; padlocking.
Wiktionary
n. A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle vb. To lock using a padlock.
WordNet
n. a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut
v. fasten with a padlock
Wikipedia
Padlocks are portable locks with a shackle that may be passed through an opening (such as a chain link, or hasp staple) to prevent use, theft, vandalism or harm.
A padlock is a simple detachable lock with a hinged or sliding shackle.
Padlock may also refer to:
- The Padlock, a comic opera by Isaac Bickerstaffe and Charles Dibdin
- "Padlock", a 1985 EP by Gwen Guthrie
- VIA PadLock, the name of a security co-processor by VIA Technologies integrated in some of their CPUs
Usage examples of "padlock".
It opened bookwise, the loops of the padlock serving as a hinge on the other side.
At the instant Birdie Crull began to shake the padlock, Isaac Coffran raised his arm and fired point-blank at the tall man in the black cloak.
THE MAGNET SWITCH The guardsmen paid not the slightest attention to their wards, for the red men could not move over two feet from the great rings to which they were padlocked, though each had seized a weapon upon which he had been engaged when I entered the room, and stood ready to join me could they have but done so.
One door was fettered by two closed padlocks, which were large and strong, and mounted upon separate heavy hasps.
From the loop swung a tiny golden padlock, but in the lock stood an even tinier key, signifying that she was a higher caste than her husband or consort, that her fettering was by choice and not command.
He told me that the man had no ready-made locks, but he was going to fit my door with a padlock, of which I should have the key.
I returned to the house to see the padlock fitted, and while the locksmith was hammering away I asked the priest why he had given a tallow candle instead of one or two wax tapers.
The girl went up to the gate and finding it locked knocked on it impatiently with the iron ring of the padlock.
The burlesque juke boxes were padlocked, the rubberoid figures that would shimmy orgiastically for a quarter were shrouded from view.
Nobody but the tyger saw her as she came and tried the big brass keys, one after another, in the padlock that secured the door of his pen.
Masin had put a patent padlock, and even Masin had not the key to that.
For that matter, I thought, if the skene had not been padlocked, anyone offended by Nicias could have entered to take and return the sword.
Using the tall doors from one of the barns they had created a strong, padlocked gate across the stone bridge which spanned the width of the water.
The padlock was small and rusted, and it looped through an even rustier hasp, which easily came off the door with a splintering sound.
The two young rent-a-cops were finishing unlocking the padlocks on the final two buildings adjacent to the power plant.