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Definition of Lockfast
1. secured by locks [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockfast
Literary usage of Lockfast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1849)
"... readiest moveable goods, gear, and other effects ; and, if needful for effecting
the said poinding, grants warrant to open all shut and lockfast places, ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland by John Hay Athole Macdonald (1877)
"It is an aggravation of theft that it is committed by " opening lockfast places."
This includes breaking into rooms or closets within a house (6), ..."
3. How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout & Trout-fishers by William Earl Hodgson (1907)
"The pieces are fitted together by an ingenious device known as the lockfast joint.
The name is accurately descriptive while the ferrules are not worn; ..."
4. How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout & Trout-fishers by William Earl Hodgson (1907)
"The pieces are fitted together by an ingenious device known as the lockfast joint.
The name is accurately descriptive while the ferrules are not worn; ..."
5. Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, from 1800 to 1842; by Patrick Shaw, Scotland Courts, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1864)
"... Housebreaking, and opening lockfast Places. 1249. Circumstances in which the
Court intimated an opinion that the aggravation of house- breaking was not ..."
6. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Archibald Swinton (1838)
"that the cabin of a steamboat is not a lockfast place in the meaning of the vox
signata; (2. ... The cabin was a lockfast place, if the door was locked, ..."
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