Lexic.us

Definition of Locker

1. Noun. A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock.

2. Noun. A fastener that locks or closes.

3. Noun. A trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks).

Definition of Locker

1. n. One who, or that which, locks.

Definition of Locker

1. Noun. A type of storage compartment with a lock usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books. ¹

2. Noun. (rare) One who locks something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Locker

1. an enclosure that may be locked [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Locker

lockbox lockboxes lockdown lockdowns locked locked-in syndrome locked bite locked facets locked fault locked knee

locked nucleic acid locked out locked rotor amp locked up locken locker (current term) locker-room locker-rooms locker rooms lockerroom

lockerrooms lockers locket lockets lockfast lockful lockfuls lockin

Literary usage of Locker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"When Mr. locker begins them, he laments that he had not kept a journal, ... With an agreeable inconsistency, he records the annals of the locker family. ..."

2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"(2) FREDERICK locker [FREDERICK locker, who in 1885 added his wife's name of ... Frederick locker, like Praed, whom he greatly admired and often imitated, ..."

3. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"When Mr. locker begins them, he laments that he had not kept.a journal, ... With an agreeable inconsistency, he records the annals of the locker family. ..."

4. Kate Greenaway by Marion Harry Spielmann, George Somes Layard (1905)
"She would not only illustrate her letters to Mr. and Mrs. locker-Lampson with the little ... Dear Mrs. locker—You see me at the top doing penance in my own ..."

5. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1812)
"Historiographer Royal, and John locker, ... Mr. Stephens dying in November 1732, his papers came into the hands of Mr. locker, whose death prevented the ..."

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