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enlock, v.|ɛnˈlɒk|
Also 7–9 inlock.
[f. en-1 + lock v.]
trans. To lock up, shut in, enclose, hold fast. Also fig.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. Prol. 4 My soveraigne Queene, In whose chast brest all bountie naturall And treasures of true love enlocked beene. 1812Crabbe Tales xxi. Wks. 1834 V. 248 He observed..His friend enlock'd within a lady's arm. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 123 Inlock both Editor and Hofrath, in the labyrinthic tortuosities and covered-ways of said citadel. 1870Myers Poems (1875) 75 Lamps enlock the tomb in golden glamour.
†b. (See quot.)
1632Sherwood, To Inlocke (mortaise in), enclaver. |