Enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it.
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Examples for "lock "
Examples for "lock "
1 Sydney's lock - out laws were driven by the New South Wales state government.
2 I found it in the lock last night and brought it in.
3 The key was in the lock on the outside of the door.
4 To his great surprise he heard the lock click, a moment later.
5 I had no trouble in fitting it or in turning the lock .
1 Anastasia had placed the swath of tape over the lock chamber , same as always.
2 We're in the final lock chamber now, awaiting the OK from Earth before we go through.
3 At once, Poole could hear the throbbing of the pumps as precious air was sucked out of the lock chamber .
4 An outside man met me near the admission lock chambers of the main building.
5 But I wanted not to pry into locked chambers .
6 In a double- locked chamber on the third level of the apartment they found what Aversin expected.
7 Actually, he turns a little too quickly into a hysteric begging to escape from his locked chamber .
8 Blue-Beard's locked chamber , and female curiosity!
9 For instance, you may have to solve a puzzle about a key in order to enter a locked chamber .
10 The shock of that awful discovery in the locked chamber , he attested, had put Mrs. Bogardus temporarily beside herself.
11 He knew, for he had them safe in the locked chamber of his breast, to yield him subservient responses.
12 But I could not understand how Fu-Manchu had gained access to locked chambers on the third story of a building.
13 Here then you have the key to the locked chambers of Audley Egerton's character, the fortified castle of his mind.
14 He kept her image in a distant and doubly- locked chamber of his heart, and seldom permitted his thoughts to go thither.
15 He had found no closets in the wall, no locked chambers ; he had met with no mysterious silences, mysterious looks, mysterious words.
16 Yet I daren't tell you, for it would be rattling at the door of the locked chamber ....
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