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Definition of Relocks
1. relock [v] - See also: relock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relocks
Literary usage of Relocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... relocks it, and pockets his key. " A thousand thanks for a curious and
interesting night," says Jasper, giving him his hand; " you can make your own way ..."
2. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1878)
"... and Mints by the first opportunity, which are so much more needed as most of
the men have h'relocks. Our store of breadstuffs is also gone ; I request ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... of twenty minutes, opens the safe, takes out what he wants, and relocks it,
and when the owner returns he finds the safe apparently just as he left it. ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... out the combination inside of twenty minutes, opens the safe takes out what
he wants, and relocks it, and when the ..."
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