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Definition of Lockkeepers
1. lockkeeper [n] - See also: lockkeeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockkeepers
Literary usage of Lockkeepers
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)
"... to pass along it, even on the Lord's Day, the Navigation Company must keep it
open, and, for this purpose, must have lockkeepers to act for them. ..."
2. Report of Proceedings (1908)
"The canal is a tool which belongs to the State ; the State has already assumed
charge of displacing boats vertically, as it pays the lockkeepers ; why ..."
3. An Inland Voyage, and Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson, James Cloyd Bowman (1918)
"He came ashore at all the locks and asked the name of the villages, whether from
boatmen or lockkeepers; and then he wrote, wrote them down. ..."
4. An Inland Voyage, and Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (1922)
"He came ashore at all the locks and asked the name of the villages, whether from
boatmen or lockkeepers; and then he wrote, wrote them down. ..."
5. Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian by Barbara N. Porter (1993)
"Officials such as lockkeepers and irrigation supervisors would be much more
effective if they already knew the farmers and landowners they were working with ..."
6. Maritime Notes and Queries: A Record of Shipping Law and Usage (1898)
"... gates in the Manchester Ship Canal, and widespread disaster was only averted
by the lockkeepers having providentially just closed the upper lock gates. ..."
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