Lock Meaning in German

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1. (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
2. (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
3. (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
4. (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
5. (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
6. (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
7. (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
8. (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
9. (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
10. (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
11. (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
12. (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock ones self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up ones silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in ones arms; to lock a secret in ones breast.
13. (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
14. (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
15. (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
16. (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

1. () A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

1. () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.