1454 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. I. 4 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Unlokit, Kistis the tane is lokkyt the tother vnlokkyt.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 165 Letting all ly unfortified, unbard, and unlockt.

1685 in N. Tate Poems by Several Hands 29 Who would stand knocking at an unlock'd Gate?

a1740 T. Tickell Fragm. on Hunting in Poet. Wks. (1781) 139 Unlock'd in covers let her freely run To range thy courts.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xviii. 154 Unbarr'd, unlock'd, unwatch'd, a port Led to the Castle's outer court.

1858 J. W. Carlyle Let. 29 July (1883) II. 366 The only drawer which is unlocked.

1924 F. Wilson et al. Francis Wilson's Life of Himself vi. 87 If the ghosts came, the unlocked door would afford a swift means of exit for ‘Her Grace’.

1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons 377/1 If reassembled wrong, it will permit firing in an unlocked position, resulting in serious injury or death to the shooter.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 July c7/4 The unlocked phone..works on any G.S.M. network worldwide.

1622 T. Powell Direct. Search of Rec. in Chancerie 62 Onely the Records of one yeare and a halfe last past, are vnlocked vp, and lye open to bee searched.

1675 Earl of Shaftesbury Let. Person of Quality 14 No Man would ever sleep with open Doors, or unlockt up Treasure, or Plate.

1729 E. Strother Family Compan. for Health 14 If Ice itself is in Motion, and loses Weight by being kept, we may allow Water unlock'd up to have more Motion, and to lose its fine Parts.

1887 ‘S. Cumberland’ Queen's Highway 63 The unlocked-up land does not appear to tempt the independent purchaser.

1913 Financial Times 6 Nov. 4/3 No documents of great value were left unlocked-up.

2004 B. James Easy Streets (2005) 117 Someone like Sashaying Vernon, possibly due a lot of jail, might want a partner on the outside... Such a partner would clearly have to be trustworthy and brilliantly capable in a business sense, and in staying unlocked up himself.

1652 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Of Christs Test. ii. ii. 52 The same New Life out of Christs Death and Resurrection, might unlock even their Life which was shut up in Death, therefore he gave them this new unlocked humane Life of his assumed humane Life.

1691 E. Taylor J. Böhme's Theosophick Philos. 377 The Bread and Wine is the Medium in which the Heavenly Humanity of Christ meets the unlocked awakened Word of Promise and Grace Covenant, which is hid in Man.

1865 Bentley's Misc. 57 503 The compositor leans over the previously unlocked forme on the table before him, pulls out the defective letters with a sharp bodkin.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 399 Once more the unlocked earth receives the plough.

1957 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 July 4/3 The author presents a somewhat antiquated dichotomy between the unlocked secrets of Egyptian and cuneiform writing on the one hand and our ‘helpless illiteracy’ in the cases of Minoan and Hittite scripts on the other.

2007 T. Hillmer Ravenhill 212 He was cruising down the hallway, holding the recently unlocked Executive Attaché.