Definitions
become rigid or immoveable
Word origin
From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”).
Used in a sentence
“"Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.”
“[T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.”
“Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Key-operated fastener”4 letters
02“Keyhole mechanism”4 letters
03“Secure with a key”4 letters
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