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Definition of Padlock
1. Noun. A detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut.
2. Verb. Fasten with a padlock.
Definition of Padlock
1. n. A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
2. v. t. To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
Definition of Padlock
1. Noun. A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle ¹
2. Verb. To lock using a padlock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Padlock
1. to secure with a type of lock [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Padlock
Literary usage of Padlock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies (1854)
"Have you the key of this padlock too, Madam ? Here 's a padlock upon the door,
... Un. Then bv my faith you shall, for now I'm «et on\—A padlock ! ..."
2. Labor Copartnership: Notes of a Visit to Co-operative Workshops, Factories by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1898)
"It was started during a strike in 1872 by padlock-makers, who were being ...
The Walsall Cooperative padlock Society is among those found fault with as ..."
3. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1900)
"... fiber as a padlock — Courtesies from the admiral of the Queen's navy — Off
for St. Helena — Land in sight. Cape of Good Hope was now the most prom- JL ..."
4. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia by Georgia General Assembly (1904)
"he would give the padlock key of the Chest in his Custody to Mr Eyre; Which he
accordingly did, the other padlock key thereof remaining in M ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... A padlock FOR THE MOUTH: JACK DIMPLE was я merry blade, Young, amorous, witty,
and well -made ..."
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