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Definition of Lockkeeper
1. Noun. A worker in charge of a lock (on a canal).
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Definition of Lockkeeper
1. Noun. The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lockkeeper
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockkeeper
Literary usage of Lockkeeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1913)
"Besides this, the law would not impose upon the lockkeeper the authority to judge
... This would make a lockkeeper, in this respect, a more important public ..."
2. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1880)
"At this instant the lockkeeper orders the men at the windlass to turn, ...
It is important that the lockkeeper should thoroughly satisfy himself that the ..."
3. A Summer Voyage on the River Saône by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1897)
"Anybody would guess our nationality at once, but it is not so with the lockkeeper.
No one meeting him out of France would say immediately, ..."
4. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"A plea that her death was caused by the willful act of the lockkeeper letting in
the water was held bad on demurrer. 1 Accord: Marsh v. Giles, ail Pa. ..."
5. Sessional Papersby Canada Parliament by Canada Parliament (1888)
"15218 И lockkeeper, 2:9 days, at $1.25, A. Labbé „.- 2T3 Я do 219 do 1 25, 0.
Moreau 2T3 tl Inspector of dredging, 60 days, at $2.50, L. Leveille. ..."
6. Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bayby Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers (2001)
"The lockkeeper was an important personage who controlled access to the canal,
collected the tolls and insured its maintenance. The lock- house, built in ..."
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