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Definition of Relocking
1. relock [v] - See also: relock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relocking
Literary usage of Relocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Obstetric operations by Robert Barnes (1870)
"... of " shelling out " the Head delayed at the Outlet—relocking—The Head is seized
obliquely by the Forceps—Time required for Extraction. ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1881)
"There was an endless unlocking and unbolting, and relocking and ... More unlocking
and relocking, more traversing of dimly-lighted passages and corridors, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"... as in the other, the elements were so arranged as to prevent the accidental
relocking of any one of them after it had been operated in its proper turn. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"... the river from the lake, stopped at the house, brought out a jug, placed it
in his dug-out; then, relocking the door, he paddled by them down the river. ..."
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