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Meanings of dead lock in English

Russian
ригель замка

Lock without a spring mechanism.

ригель замка
Usage of dead lock in English
1
With him still at Maxfield everything came to a dead lock.
Roger Ingleton, Minor
2
Were this not done the work would come absolutely to a dead lock.
North America — Volume 2
3
Any way, though, he was at a dead lock.
Bluebell / A Novel
4
Messrs. Sicotte and Rowland suddenly went home, and we appeared to be at a dead lock.
Canada and the States
5
At last they came to a dead lock.
Beatrice
6
Now at last there was a dead lock.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
7
Something brought up the dead lock in Victoria, which excited violent feeling for some reason not obvious.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
8
To such a dead lock has it been brought by the attempted but impossible amalgamation of North and South.
North America — Volume 1
9
Things were at a dead lock and stand still, until the so-called devotion gave an impetus to the movement.
The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
10
But after they had got to a quiet and remote part of the garden, they came to a dead lock.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
11
Meanwhile, if new patterns had been required by the men, the work in the carving departments would have come to a dead lock.
The Stillwater Tragedy
12
He had considered every probability or improbability of this sort, but not how he should act in such a dead lock as the present.
Bluebell / A Novel
13
He had always heard that the iron in the sword kept the spirits of the dead locked within their tombs.
A Dance with Dragons
14
"It seems to be a dead lock," he said.
Man and Wife
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