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Definition of Safety lock
1. Noun. Guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired.
2. Noun. A bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Lock
Literary usage of Safety lock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"On a Safety-Lock for Facing-points. By MORTIMER EVANS. On the Experiments made
at the Camp at Aldershot with a new form of Military Field-Railway, ..."
2. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1878)
"... Annett'a safety lock has been invented. The drawing shows a siding in
communication with the down main line. Both the "main line" and the "safety" or ..."
3. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Harvey Tschappat (1917)
"The safety lock 36 consists of a small plr pivoted near the rearmost point of
the receiver. When the &!• is in its forward position and the hammer 23 is ful ..."