locked adjective2.
[lɒkt] LME.[from LOCK verb1, noun2: see -ED1, -ED2.]1. That has been locked; that has locked;
esp. (also foll. by
up) closed with a lock and key.
LME.British Medical Journal Limited movement in knee which becomes locked if moved much. ■ A. Judd The people..had retreated behind locked doors and put out their lights.2. Provide with a (pad)lock.
L15.3. Of a canal: provided with locks.
E19.
Special collocations & comb.:
locked-coil adjective designating a rope or cable which has the outer strands of such a shape as to lock together and form a smooth cylindrical surface.
locked groove on a gramophone record, a circular groove into which the normal spiral groove runs.
locked jaw (a) a jaw shut fast by spasmodic contraction of the muscles;
(b) =
LOCKJAW.
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